As the title suggests, this thesis comprises several works of creative nonfiction. First, "Zen and the Art of Conquest" presents an incomplete narrative, in six chapters, that draws inspiration from Robert Pirsig's Zen and ...

A collection of personal essays that explore the concept of fragmentation and its effects on memory. This collection challenges the belief that life is experienced in a linear way, and instead suggests that conceptually ...

Mechanisms Light and Miraculous is a work concerned with form. From abecedarians to long stretches of terza rima, to the innovated "Little Box," each poem in the collection is beholden to a set of constraints that intimately ...

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 ...

A collection of eleven personal essays, this creative nonfiction masters thesis explores patterns and evolution of mental health and illness primarily as they exist within families and self. Using nonfiction forms including ...

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 ...

"This Sky, Over Everything," is a collection of creative nonfiction essays that circle around grief and the aftermath of loss. Using the over-arching metaphors of constellation, navigation, and sacred texts, the eleven ...

Crawling Home investigates the life of a young woman ready to disrupt the norms around her. The memoir follows the narrator backwards through time from the loss of her best friend at age nineteen, to her earliest school ...