REBECCA MCCLANAHAN’s 12th book is Light Falls on Everything: A Daughter’s Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility (University of North Carolina Press). Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, and in anthologies published by Simon & Schuster, Beacon, Norton, and Bedford/St. Martin; her book Word Painting: The Fine Art of Writing Descriptively is used in numerous writing programs. She has received two Pushcart prizes, the Glasgow Award in Nonfiction, the Wood Prize from Poetry magazine, and the N.C. Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education. She teaches in the MFA program at Queens University, Charlotte, North Carolina.
