Commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the nationally recognized Spalding low-residency MFA in Writing program, this anthology collects essays from the MFA faculty blog from 2014 to 2021. These works offer a trove of insights and accumulated wisdom from fifty faculty members, directors, staff, and alumni-each dedicated to the Spalding ethos of creativity and compassion.
Non-Fiction
In this poignant and moving memoir, Stan "JR" Zerkowski bravely recounts his personal struggle to face and embrace his identity as a gay man and to reconcile it with his deeply rooted Polish Catholicism.
Growing up in Western Kentucky, "Ronnie" Adams was one of the state's top-ranked high school basketball players from 1972-75, dreaming of playing in the NBA, until a coal mining accident left him a quadriplegic at the age of 19. With basketball no longer an option, he enrolled at Murray State University, where he earned a […]
Buried Talents exposes the subtle forms of socialization that often go unnoticed but serve to pull women away from leadership - both within the church and in other male-dominated occupations. The first three chapters explore the areas in which socialization occurs: toy selection, chore assignments, media messages, teachers' expectations for student success, and identity development.
Bringing Ben Home tells the story of Ben Spencer, a Black man wrongly convicted and sentenced to life before being freed after 34 years, a case which reveals how easy it is to convict an innocent person and how impossible it is to undo the mistake.
In Bourbon Land, Chef Edward Lee pays tribute to the iconic Kentucky spirit with a book full of original recipes, Kentucky Bourbon history, industry profiles and more.
Bourbon Is My Comfort Food reveals the delicious beauty of bourbon cocktails and the joy of creating them. Whether readers are new to bourbon or steeped in its history and myriad uses, they will gain the knowledge to make great bourbon cocktails, share them with friends and family, and expand their whiskey horizons—because the only […]
Bluegrass Sons is a true crime family saga about Bradley Bryant, a United States Marine who lived a double life, set between Lexington, Kentucky, and the desert days and gaudy nights of 1970s Las Vegas, Nevada with a little El Paso, Guatemala, and Savannah thrown in.
Bizarre Bluegrass includes strange but true stories from Kentucky's past including hoaxes; ghost towns; missing persons; a brain-teasing puzzle designed by professor/magician Tobin, who taught science at EKU back when it was called Central University; the mystery of Pearl Bryan's missing head; a mass hallucination; little-known Abraham Lincoln stories and more.
Benefactors of Posterity explores the Filson Historical Society's founding era and Louisville in the Gilded Age.
With chapters contributed by a diversity of higher education staff and faculty, Belonging in Higher Education illuminates autoethnographic stories of belonging in higher education in the United States.
In Before the Storm Takes It Away, he steps away from poetry and into short explorations in nonfiction—alternately dark, wry, contemplative, and explosive.