Rebecca McClanahan

The author of eleven books, McClanahan has published work in THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY, THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS, THE PUSHCART PRIZE series, KENYON REVIEW, GEORGIA REVIEW, GETTYSBURG REVIEW, BOULEVARD, THE SUN, and in anthologies by Beacon Press, Norton, Doubleday, St. Martin's, Putnam, Penguin, and numerous other publishers.

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"Poetic, unflinching, unforgettable—all are apt words to describe Light Falls on Everything, but as I finished this profound depiction of love and loss, what I felt most was a sublime sense of wonder."
—Ron Rash, author of The Caretaker
"A powerful and moving look at how love evolves even through our most trying times."
—Lee Martin, author of The Evening Shades
"McClanahan is a bold and gentle guide as she examines what looking after, and saying goodbye to, our dearest beloveds requires of us. This book is a treasure."
—Jill Christman, author of If This Were Fiction

RECENTLY RELEASED

• Rebecca's essay "When Life Interrupts the Writing" appears in The Next Draft, an anthology of craft talks.

• Rebecca's poem "Mrs. Houdini" appears alongside poems by Lucille Clinton, Muriel Rukeyser, Emily Dickinson, and many others in Everyman's Library edition of Spellbound: Poems of Magic and Enchantment.