Rebecca McClanahan’s ten published books include The Tribal Knot, Word Painting, and The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings, winner of the Glasgow Award in nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Poetry, the Pushcart Prize series, Boulevard, The Sun, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, Brevity, and numerous other journals and anthologies. McClanahan teaches in the MFA programs of Queens University and Rainier Writing Workshop and in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop.