Date of Award
Spring 5-11-2022
Degree Type
Capstone
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Professional Writing (MAPW)
Department
English
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Jenny Sadre-Orafai
Co-Chair
Garrard Conley
Abstract
What Made the Writer Emerge is a portfolio that consists of creative writing such as poems and short stories. It is inspired by my true-life events, centered around a young girl who is haunted by her death, heartbreak and struggling with telling her parents that she doesn't want to be a doctor. As a result of the events, she develops anxiety and makes some mistakes along the journey, but she allows everything to make her and not break her. The pain has only brought life to her gift. All of her thoughts spill out into her fingers to tell the story of how the writer emerged.