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Item Everything Still Strong Within Me(2019-01-14) Bozmarova, Ellie; Messitt, Maggie; Levenson, Jacob; Toumani, Meline; Suzannah, Lessard; MFA in Creative NonfictionEverything Still Strong Within Me is an immigrant memoir about a Bulgarian atheist-turned-Pentecostal preacher, Lyubomir Bozmarov, who fled post-communist Bulgaria for Southern California, written from the perspective of his eldest daughter, Ellie. Despite the promise of a better life, her mother, Antoaneta, ends her life before age thirty, leaving her daughter to return to Bulgaria and find the missing pieces of their past.Item Funeral for a Whale(2023) Cohen, Michael Todd; Orange, Michelle; Burke, Porscha; MFA in Creative NonfictionAt ten, queer adoptee Michael Todd Cohen witnessed the bloody burial of a thirty-foot whale on a New England beach near his home. Five years later, in the last months and days of his adoptive father’s battle with terminal cancer, Cohen sees it as a metaphor for the life-altering secret buried between them. Then, widowed at thirty-two, when his husband is lost in a high-rise fire, Cohen struggles to make sense of a world that takes more than it gives. This lyric field journal from the fraught borderlands of sexuality, home, family, grief, and faith asks: in the land of capitalism, who determines our worth? What precisely is the value of grief? And how do we invest in each other when futures are uncertain?Item If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: A Memoir(2023-12-30) Rachel Michelle Leibrock; Toumani, Meline; Hughes, Evan; MFA in Creative NonfictionIn September 1996, haunted by a dream I’d had, I boarded a plane from Sacramento, bound for Dallas. Nearly a quarter-century earlier, my biological mother, Pamala, had left me in a daycare and flown to the Bahamas to be with her new boyfriend while her husband— my father—still fought in Vietnam. I was two-and-a-half years old at the time and hadn’t seen my mother since. Then, I dreamed that she died before I had the chance to meet her—before I had the opportunity to ask her about the events and choices that led her to leave me behind. After Pamala left me, my parents divorced, and my father remarried. His new wife, Barbara, adopted me. We instantly bonded, setting forth a life-long relationship that withstood my parents’ divorce and my father’s ensuing absence, but turned fragile, first during my troubled adolescence and later as I entered an abusive relationship. If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home by Now is a memoir of fragmented mother-daughter relationships and generational reckonings—a portrait of reluctant motherhood, ambition, and the pitfall of domesticity is told through the lens of riot grrrl, feminist politics, and pop culture. At its core, this book asks a central question: By examining my mothers’ lives, choices, and mistakes, can I face my own and survive?Item "No Ashes in the Fire" author Darnell Morre on what it means to be "Black and Free in America"(Salon.com, LLC, 2018-07-12) Watkins, Dwight; Communications Design; Communications DesignSalon talks to Darnell Moore about his new memoir, existential freedom and the power of "radical black love"Item Secret Agent My Father and MeTazewell, Anne; Toumani, Meline; MFA in Creative NonfictionThis manuscript is an investigative memoir about my father James M Eichelberger, a CIA agent in Cairo and Beirut in the 1950’s and 60s, a Middle East oil consultant, a WWII spy for the French Resistance and a man who died penniless, a man I barely knew. I am a married mother of three, concerned about our environment, who has a career promoting alternative transportation fuels. In 2003 I first search the internet for my father. The undercover political landscape of WWII and the early days of Middle East oil emerges through personal correspondence, books my father is mentioned in, archives, newspapers and meetings, as does the deceit he engaged in through his personal life. Understanding the social political history of these times helps me reconcile the pain of his abandonment.Item Three: A Memoir(2018) Laing, Laura; MFA in Creative NonfictionThree: A Memoir is a fractured narrative, exploring romantic love through the lens of mathematical proof and structure. In lyric passages braided with metaphorical, mathematical inquires, Laing considers choice and chance, discovery and creation, during the time when she left the shelter of her Appalachian mountain home, embraced her intellect and queerness, and fell in love. Experimental in form and subject, this creative non-fiction thesis is a mathematical and philosophical inquiry of the three loves of Laing's life. As such, she considers the shadow lands of gay romance, during an in-between period of American culture, when big cities were beginning to embrace queer individuals and communities but rural areas still denied that same-sex love existed. It was in these small, conservative communities that she tested her understanding of love and queerness, searching for a personal truth that would last a lifetime.