After I got my master’s, I spent about eight years after that getting rejected and just wildly failing at trying to be a writer. I went off to Vassar College, and I won the Vassar College fiction prize - it felt like a big deal.Īnd then I came home one year after college and went straight to grad school at the University of Houston's creative writing program, which is ranked second in the nation. KC: I’ve had many periods of deep discouragement - but a lot of early career encouragement. So, we’re a bookish family.ĬM: What did you have to do to make that dream into a reality? It's kind of a Houston institution actually. My mom has a master's in library science my parents are both huge book people, and my uncle actually owned a bookstore in Houston called the Detering Book Gallery when I was growing up.
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