Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney on writing with joy

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a poet raised in Connecticut,

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  a state where the historical landscape left its mark on the way she thinks and writes.

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  After studying at New York University, where she gained her MFA,

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  she became a fellow at the University of Wisconsin and Emory before returning to Beloit College,

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  her alma mater, as a visiting assistant professor of English.

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  Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and Granter, and her first full collection, Joy is My Middle Name,

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  takes us through the years of early adulthood with wit,

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  candour and sharp observation, addressing race, pop culture and the performance of identity with humour and bite.

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  Sasha DeBevec McKinney, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Hi, I'm so happy to be here.

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  I'm loving you being here.

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  Can I just say how much I love your hair?

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  Thank you so much.

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  It's wild.

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  It's just brilliant.

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  Thank you.

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  It has the joy in it that your book has in its title.

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  I took some classes with Sharon Olds and we would see like Marie Howe read and stuff.

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