You can hear the gaseousness. Metropolitan State University Growing up in the rural Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, Alison McGhee knew very early in her childhood that she would become an artist. By age 6, when she began writing words on pages and stapling them together into books, she knew that words would be her art form. McGhee, who teaches creative writing at Metropolitan State University, says she tries hard to help each of her students develop his or her own voice as a writer, but she is quick to say she does not wish her life as a published writer and novelist on any of them. My students generally need encouragement in writing their poetry, essays and short fiction.
Publication can be a debilitating process.
It's about rejection after rejection after rejection. Rainlight won the 1998 Great Lakes College Association National Fiction Award and a 1999 Minnesota Book Award. Both novels are set in an intriguing rural area of New York state, and McGhee is working on a third novel. Her short fiction and poetry are published and recognized frequently in literary magazines. I give myself deadlines.