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Winter 2009 • Vol. XXXI No. 1 • Nonfiction |

The Tribal Knot: Ties That Bind and Break Us

By Rebecca McClanahan

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Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan has published ten books of nonfiction, poetry, and writing instruction. Recipient of the Wood Prize from Poetry Magazine, a Pushcart Prize, and the Glasgow Award for nonfiction, McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University–Charlotte and Ranier Writing Workshop. She was the 2015 writer in residence at Hollins University. 

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www.RebeccaMcClanahanWriter.com

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