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Where I Come From: Writing About Place

Revisit place through the lens of memory.

There are places we run to and places we run from, and sometimes they’re one and the same. Where we come from is the opening chapter of our lives. We carry that place with us as we live out the rest of our story. It’s been said that to understand how to look forward, we need to look backward. In this workshop, you’ll revisit where you came from and write about it through the lens of memory.

Marsha McGregor’s personal essays can be found in four anthologies, most recently YOU, An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person (Welcome Table Press) and A Harp in the Stars, An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press). Her personal essays for Cleveland Magazine span over 13 years. Her work has appeared in literary journals including BrainChild, Zone 3, Kenyon Review Online, Fourth Genre, River Teeth's "Beautiful Things," and Literary Mama.