Browsing by Department "Creative Writing"
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(2010-04-28)Department: Creative WritingA Special Relativity is the story of a family living in Orange County, California. The novella takes place during one summer. Vanden West—beautiful and cruel—has just returned home from college on the East Coast to find ...
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(2020-08-22)Department: Creative WritingStriking The Match: Transitioning From Stasis to Agency
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(2023-06-28)Department: Creative WritingALL THESE FAMILIAR THINGS is a novel-in-stories set in the 1990s in the South Bronx. Each chapter follows a different neighbor at 1457 Ogden Avenue. Still, three teenagers weave in and out of the chapters—Miguel, who works ...
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(2023-06-28)Department: Creative WritingALL THESE FAMILIAR THINGS is a novel-in-stories set in the 1990s in the South Bronx. Each chapter follows a different neighbor at 1457 Ogden Avenue. Still, three teenagers weave in and out of the chapters—Miguel, who works ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Creative WritingBlack Holes & Their Feeding Habits is a collection of poems that centers around themes of addiction, identity, nature, various conceptions of home, and the ubiquitous negotiations between the self and the external world. ...
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Blue Run (2017-07-13)Department: Creative WritingMy thesis explores landscape and memory as thin places—the meeting places between opposites, particularly between humanity and divinity. My initial poem, “Memory Palace,” both praises the brain’s power and acknowledges ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: Creative WritingCall Me When You Land is a collection of eight short stories that explore the passage of time, what it means to leave or return home, the feeling of being adrift in the world, and the search for human connection. In “Shelby ...
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(2022-06-07)Department: Creative WritingThis short fiction collection focuses on people challenged to fully integrate with their settings, as they operate either outside of, or against, new and different spaces. These seven stories explore the unsettling ...
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(2017-08-14)Department: Creative WritingAs Herman writes, “The first principle of recovery is the empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery.” Egg Harbor’s overall project is to move beyond its traumas by reconstructing ...
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Escapes (2023-07-14)Department: Creative WritingThis thesis tells the story of its principle character's return to his hometown in the aftermath of his father's health crisis. It has been two years since Tristan visited his family in Central Florida, and his return ...
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(2022-06-09)Department: Creative WritingFirst Want begins with this hungry eye and expands outward, circling around questions of desire and convention, gender roles and expectations, perception, the domestic, sexuality, and performance versus authentic experience. ...
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(2021-07-14)Department: Creative WritingFrom the Inventory of Images I Cannot Unsee is a collection of original poetry that explores Asian American diasporic families, intergenerational influences and inheritances, trauma and recovery, queerness, womanhood, and ...
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(2021-07-15)Department: Creative WritingThe stories in this thesis inspect the lives of Pakistani characters as they journey between worlds of differing privileges and social rules both within Pakistan and abroad, and the fragmentations of identity and relationships ...
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(2022-05-31)Department: Creative WritingA thesis submitted to the faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (fiction), this novel excerpt follows ...
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(2022-06-29)Department: Creative WritingImagined Bodies and Other Stories focuses on young girls and women who find themselves in new situations, countries, or bodies that leave them reeling. These five stories examine the generational and everyday violence often ...
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(2020-07-17)Department: Creative WritingIn Disguise is a collection of short stories about people who have been living under strain for a long time. Their stories begin at the unexpected moment when the strain becomes too much: for one character, the leaving of ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: Creative WritingA collection of poems exploring the coexistence of tenderness and violence within a framework of masculinity. Through narrative and lyric modes, the poems interrogate complex questions of beauty and sublimity as they ...
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(2023-06-23)Department: Creative WritingInteriors is a collection of poems that navigates the tension between revealing the intimate self and turning away from this revealing to seek safety in solitude. An introspective speaker moves through confessional and ...
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(2023-06-23)Department: Creative WritingInteriors is a collection of poems that navigates the tension between revealing the intimate self and turning away from this revealing to seek safety in solitude. An introspective speaker moves through confessional and ...
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(2017-08-11)Department: Creative WritingThis manuscript of poetry contains three sections. The first section primarily includes poems about family landscapes, relationships, and history. These poems seek to explore past and present settings in order to understand ...