To the Creek
Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
4-17-2021
Year of Publication
2019
Degree Name
Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
English
First Advisor
Erik Reece
Abstract
“To the Creek” is a creative nonfiction work in which place and identity play integral roles. Following a series of family revelations, the narrator embarks on a rebuilding project both of herself and a 100-year-old corncrib, the only standing structure on a Kentucky farm she and her husband inherited a few years before. However, farm life isn’t a natural fit for a first generation Cuban American, so this work touches on identity as well.
The corncrib’s new function as a retreat and writing space leads the writer to explore similar efforts by other writers to convert existing sheds into creative spaces, with particular emphasis on Virginia Woolf and Thomas Merton.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2019.108
Recommended Citation
Gray, Suzanne Fernandez, "To the Creek" (2019). Theses and Dissertations--English. 88.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/88
