Author: Megan Bush

Megan Bush received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.  She lives in an off-the-grid cabin on an island in Southeast Alaska. She is working on a memoir about her family’s experience with Schizophrenia. Her work has been published recently in Cactus Heart Press, Shade Mountain Press and Saltfront.

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fallible images of ourselves

Brett Sigurdson interviews
Megan Bush
 

Our nonfiction co-editor, Brett Sigurdson, recently had this exchange with Megan Bush, our Issue #14 featured nonfiction author. Here’s what she had to say about the influence of her Alaskan setting on her writing, her interest in identity and memory, and the memoir she is working on now… Read more

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Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction Issue #14

Image from the "Ethnic Karen Textiles" collection by Stewart Manley, Photograph, Mud Season Review
Image from the "Ethnic Karen Textiles" collection by Stewart Manley, Photograph

Knit to Feelings

By Megan Bush
 
 

Tell me about yourself, humans ask. We query friends, family, lovers; in supermarket parking lots, at dinner tables, in bars, in bedrooms. Over time, the answers become threads woven into cloth. The stories wrap us together, like children pressed against their mothers’ chests, like naked lovers held between one set of sheets…
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