"The War Within" is comprised of the first eight chapters of my memoir of the same title. My memoir covers a span of approximately twelve years, and includes the circumstances of my life leading up to joining the military, ...

This thesis is a work of creative nonfiction. As a memoir, its purpose is to reveal the lived realities of being born into an American Indian family, then removed from that family, citing 'neglect', and adopted and raised ...

With a July 2012 Pacific Northwest road trip undergirding this narrative nonfiction woven from three strands (the present, past, and contemplations on science, nature, and mythology), the Colorado author's husband and aging ...

On September 1, 2013, Joannah Merriman, not at all a hiker, not really an outdoor athlete of any sort, set out to walk the Camino de Santiago from the French Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. A card-carrying member of ...

This thesis is a collection of several essays, in the style of personal essay, which follow the life of a young woman grappling with trauma, anxiety, and, ultimately, self-love. The collection begins with "Lace," a musing ...

This thesis is a collection of personal essays, blending memoir and cultural criticism, on the topic of eating disorders. Several of the chapters are personal narratives about my experience having anorexia nervosa and ...

"If you define writing as any kind of scribble, any kind of trying to mark on the world," Gloria Anzaldúa says in an interview with Andrea Lundsford, "And, some of us want to take those marks that are already inscribed in ...

The veterinary profession, we First-Years were told during orientation, is the white-collar demographic with the highest addiction, depression, divorce, and suicide rates in the country. Despite these warnings and all the ...

Turnskin is a monstrous exploration in human ferality. A true fairytale about a woman or a wolf or a girl nosing toward the wilderness within the self, it wonders at how to be both human and animal, imagined and real, alive ...