Date of Award

Spring 5-2022

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Fine Arts (MFA)

Department

English

Program/Concentration

Creative Writing

Committee Director

Ben Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Committee Member

John McManus

Committee Member

Molly McCully Brown

Abstract

Symbiotic Complexity is a collection of hybrid memoir essays that explores the connection between the mental, physical and spiritual self. Each essay focuses on the body, in some way or another. In this collection I play with lyricism, form, and memory, to explore what it means to be human. I set out to write just about the physical and realized I can't do that without the mental since they are two halves of a whole that makes us human. In doing so, I realized that this collection really focuses on the complexities that being human creates and the impact that society, family, spirituality, and experiences have on the self as a whole.

DOI

10.25777/n5b6-dp91

ISBN

9798819394571

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