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Nancy McCabe

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Nancy McCabe is the author of four memoirs about a range of topics: adoption and heritage; violence against women, memory, and creativity; travel, childhood, reading, and children’s literature. Her previous books include After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening (Purdue 2003) about which Lee Martin writes, “Nancy McCabe makes plain, with stunning grace and strength, the redemptive power of story.” Publisher’s Weekly says of her second book, Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption (Missouri 2003), “As a new mother and grieving daughter, McCabe struggles poignantly and triumphantly to maintain her own identity as she creates her place within family. Her tale will be familiar and inspiring to those interested in delving into their own family relations, as well as to single women considering adoption.” And finally, Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to my Daughter’s Birthplace in China (Missouri 2011) was described in Adoption Today as “wonderfully entertaining, serious at the right moments, sensitive and compassionate enough to give it heart, humorous and honest enough to make it real.” Nancy’s essays have won a Pushcart prize and made the Best American Essays Notable List five times. Her work has also made the Notable List for Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Fourth Genre, Newsweek, Gulf Coast, Crazyhorse, Crab Orchard Review, Colorado Review, Massachusetts Review, Bellingham Review, Louisville Review, and others. She has also received an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and two awards from Prairie Schooner. In addition to creative nonfiction, she has published reviews, fiction, poetry, journalism, and academic essays. Nancy directs the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford and teaches creative nonfiction and fiction for the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. She has spoken at numerous colleges and universities, including Xavier University of Louisiana, University of West Georgia, University of Rhode Island, Westminster College, Missouri; Hamilton College, Gettysburg College, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Furman University. She is available for talks and readings.
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