The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s - TIME

The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s - TIME
Robert McCammon's 'Swan Song' makes PBS' 'Great American Read' list of 100 beloved books - Alabama NewsCenter
The Results Are In: See Who Won SNHU's 5th Annual Fall Fiction Contest - Southern New Hampshire University

Posted: 12 Nov 2019 12:00 AM PST

It's as hard to write a page-turner as it is to write fiction that brings fresh perspective and meaning to the world. Achieving both in a single work is a feat accomplished by only the best of writers—but the 2010s produced multiple works that will go down in history as propulsive and deep, moving and timeless.

Ten in particular stand out: Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad and George Saunders' Tenth of December predicted the near future with eerie precision. Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing and Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys mined the recent past to devastating effect. The most imaginative and absorbing fiction of the decade drew us in and made us reflect on ourselves—where we have been, and where we must go.

Here are TIME's picks for the 10 best fiction books of the 2010s, in order of publication year. Also read TIME's list of the best nonfiction books of the decade.

A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan (2010)

Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad feels even more significant now than it did when it was first published nearly a decade ago. The book's mold-breaking structure, which switches between different characters with each chapter, has become a favorite trick of modern novelists. But it's Egan's prescience about technology that has truly stood the test of time. One memorable chapter is written entirely as a PowerPoint presentation delivered by a daughter about her family, a demonstration of the way in which technology filters personal stories. She also posits a future in which toddlers become social media influencers and steer pop culture, a prediction that in the last several years has become a reality. But the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has proven to be more than just a formal accomplishment and a bellwether of technological trends. It also captures something timeless: how aging, and the ways we attempt to cope with it, can wreak havoc on human connection.

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2011)

Two young girls, Lila and Lena, become friends when one of them drops the other's beloved doll into the scariest shaft she can find and, in fury, the other follows suit. Together they have to face their fears and retrieve them. And so begins a tale in which the two hurt, love, goad and envy each other, traversing the spectrum of interpersonal behaviors from cruelty to utter tenderness. One of the most dazzling aspects of My Brilliant Friend is that readers can never tell exactly who's brilliant and who's a friend—and neither can Lila and Lena. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein, with a deep historical understanding of 1950s Naples, the book (like the three more installments of the Neapolitan series that followed) was a sensation from its original publication in Italian in 2011, not least because the true identity of author Elena Ferrante is still uncertain. Like her protagonists', Ferrante's motives are hard to ascertain, but her tale is as clear and brutal as falling glass.

Buy now: My Brilliant Friend

Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (2012)

Author Gillian Flynn didn't invent the unreliable narrator. But before Gone Girl, readers had never met a character quite like Amy Dunne: provocative, profane, mercurial and fully capable of delivering a monologue (the infamous "cool girl" speech) for the ages. It's a lot easier to measure the impact of Gone Girl now than it was in 2012. The novel's famous twist, in which it's revealed that neither Amy or her husband Nick are what they seem, made the story hard for critics to parse when it was released. But since then, Gone Girl has defined a generation's worth of mystery novels and spawned countless copycats—many with "girl" or "wife" in the title. Unlike many of its imitators, Gone Girl seriously reckons with complicated questions about victimhood, femininity and marriage, set against the straining backdrop of the Great Recession. The qualities of a good thriller—crackling prose, a palpable sense of dread, sharply-drawn characters—are all present in Gone Girl. But Flynn elevates the novel above pulpy cliches, rendering a story that's both a sharp feminist critique and an engaging literary work.

Buy now: Gone Girl

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)

A literary prodigy who published her first book, Purple Hibiscus, at age 25, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie cemented her place as one of her generation's greatest novelists with Americanah. Its protagonist Ifemelu, like the author, is a young writer who travels from her native Nigeria to the U.S. to pursue an elite education—and learns what it means to be a black woman in a country built on white supremacy. Intertwined with her story is that of her high school boyfriend Obinze, whose failed attempt to join her puts him on a darker, more dangerous path in England. The question of whether each is better off at home or abroad hangs over their experiences across three continents in what is both a page-turner and a novel of ideas, a gimlet-eyed analysis of blackness in America and a warm, witty coming-of-age tale about finding your place in a world that just keeps getting bigger. Americanah stood out in a decade when art that probed identity in general and race relations in particular helped define the terms of a rightfully impassioned cultural conversation.

Buy now: Americanah

Life After Life, Kate Atkinson (2013)

Ursula Todd dies over and over again in Kate Atkinson's Life After Life—from falling off a roof, from drowning, from succumbing to the flu. But the deaths are just a device: this is a book about living, and above all, finding new ways to do it until you finally get it right. Atkinson made her name as a mystery writer, but Life After Life defies genre. The novel spans more than half a century, and Atkinson's shifts in time deepen her storytelling, allowing readers to experience the effects of the sprawling cast of characters' choices—a marriage abandoned or saved, a soldier who survives or perishes. It's also a defining account of wartime London, as Ursula experiences the devastation of the Blitz from various perspectives, highlighting the senselessness of bombing raids. The story of her multiple lives is both moving and lighthearted, filled with comic asides and evocative language about life's many joys and sorrows. Despite the obvious tragedy, Ursula's unconventional existence is ultimately affirming, as she reminds us that "we should try and do our best," even as we face our own mortality.

Buy now: Life After Life

Tenth of December, George Saunders (2013)

Great writers rarely earn their place in history through short stories. Among the exceptions are Poe, Chekhov, Borges, Munro—and, since the publication of his fourth collection Tenth of December in 2013, George Saunders. In 10 immersive fictions that felt current at the time but reveal even more clairvoyance six years on, the longtime Syracuse professor stirs reality and surrealism into an intoxicating cocktail, mixing sci-fi concepts, human emotion and biting humor. "The Semplica Girl Diaries" imagines a world where girls from developing nations are brought to America to serve as living lawn decor. "Escape From Spiderhead" takes place at a futuristic prison, where inmates are used as test subjects for drugs designed to make them fall in and out of love. Each of these darkly comic tales cuts to the quick, underpinned by an urgent moral consciousness and well-justified anxiety about what happens when technology starts to overtake humanity. In a tribute for 2013's TIME 100, Mary Karr called Saunders "the best short-story writer in English." Since then, he has inspired many imitators, but no equal.

Buy now: Tenth of December

The Sellout, Paul Beatty (2015)

The plot is absurd: narrator and protagonist Bonbon is a quality-obsessed farmer in Dickens, Calif., a primarily African-American and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. Formerly a thriving city, Dickens' decline has led to its demotion to an unmarked neighborhood, and the narrative is primarily driven by Bonbon's attempt, along with his slave Hominy, to save Dickens from further dissolution by re-segregating the local high school. As with all great absurdist and satirical literature, the Man Booker Prize winner is hilarious, not for the sake of laughs, but in the service of delivering scathing truths about the world. Paul Beatty's sentences burn with the heat and density of a neutron star, thick with keen social observation, illuminating contemporary and historical references, deeply felt rage against and love for life in 21st-century America and, more than anything else, the sort of honed-edge humor that makes you laugh but also want to cry.

Buy now: The Sellout

Sing, Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward (2017)

Few authors have had a more impressive run in the 2010s than Jesmyn Ward. Raised in Mississippi and committed to documenting the unacceptable realities of black life in the South, Ward won the National Book Award for her second novel, 2011's Hurricane Katrina meditation Salvage the Bones. Two years later, she published Men We Reaped, a wrenching memoir tracing the deaths of five young black men who played indelible roles in her life. The capstone to these achievements was 2017's Sing, Unburied, Sing, which made Ward the first woman to win two National Book Awards for fiction. A lyrical ghost story of a novel, Sing follows a fragile, drug-abusing black woman named Leonie on a road trip with her two children to bring the kids' white father home from prison. As that seemingly straightforward journey grows ever more arduous, the book moves fluidly between the present and the past, gradually uncovering the race-related trauma that has shaped this interracial family.

Buy now: Sing, Unburied, Sing

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng (2017)

Little Fires Everywhere begins as a whimsical whodunnit—who set fire to the home of the wealthy Richardson family in Shaker Heights, Ohio?—and unfolds into a dizzying and multifaceted examination of abortion, motherhood, racial identity and class warfare. Members of the Richardsons believe that Shaker Heights is an American utopia, but their worldview is challenged when a poor artist and her teenage daughter arrive in town with their own conceptions of self-worth and achievement. Romances blossom. Secrets are swapped. Bitter rivalries form. As the two families become deeply entangled in one another's lives, the differences between them become too vast to handle. Author Celeste Ng, who lived in Shaker Heights as a child herself, weaves a tightly constructed mystery—currently being adapted into a Hulu miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington—with an unflappable and unsentimental hand. In doing so, she creates a fiery read that leaves ashes in your brain.

Buy now: Little Fires Everywhere

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)

Colson Whitehead is a consummate storyteller, and in The Nickel Boys he wields his mastery over character and narrative in service of dramatizing the American South's Jim Crow years to piercing effect. His brilliant 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, won both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, only the sixth ever to do so—but The Nickel Boys is arguably even more powerful. Perhaps it's the book's proximity to present-day circumstances in the U.S. Reading it in a world just a generation removed from the traumas of Jim Crow requires engaging with the harrowing experiences of the characters, boys at a Florida reform school, not as the unfortunate outcome of some unknown, antediluvian society but as true to our own. "A piece of art really works when you see yourself in the main characters and you see a glimpse of yourself in the villains," Whitehead told TIME this year for a cover story. "You see yourself in the minor and major characters where, but for a quirk of fate, you could be in there with them—that could be growing up as an African-American male in America."

Buy now: The Nickel Boys

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Robert McCammon's 'Swan Song' makes PBS' 'Great American Read' list of 100 beloved books - Alabama NewsCenter

Posted: 10 Dec 2019 12:00 PM PST

Robert McCammon is the only living Alabama author to have a book named to PBS' "The Great American Read" list of 100 beloved books. (Harper Lee, who died in 2016, topped the list with "To Kill a Mockingbird"). McCammon's apocalyptic novel "Swan Song," co-winner (with Stephen King) of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award, was No. 94 on the list. It is one of 23 novels the Birmingham native has written since graduating in 1974 from the University of Alabama, where he was editor of The Crimson White. Many are bestsellers, including his 1978 breakout novel, "Baal," "Boy's Life" and "Gone South." Although he enjoys a loyal international fan base, he still lives in Birmingham. Alabama Living talked with him as he was wrapping up his latest book in the popular Matthew Corbett historical fiction series.

Robert McCammon has written 23 books and shows no sign of slowing down. (contributed)

Alabama Living: When did you first begin writing?

Robert McCammon: I remember writing a story about an invasion of giant grasshoppers and reading that to other kids in my first grade, so I guess I would've been 6. When I was a freshman at Banks High School in Roebuck, they had a writing contest that I won with a story about a dying soldier in Vietnam. The prize was $10, but the real prize was that a teacher — one of the contest judges — had written on my paper the question, "A freshman wrote this?" that I suppose was directed to the other judges. That, unfortunately, was the first and last year they had the contest.

AL: You've talked publicly about the lack of encouragement for your writing that you received at the Birmingham Post-Herald, where you worked on the copy desk. Was there any professor at UA who did see writing talent in you, and encouraged you to pursue that?

McCammon: Yes, there was, though I've forgotten his name. He was a creative writing teacher, and he seemed to like my work, but it became weird because whenever any of the other students read his or her work this professor would look at me and say something like, "What do you think about that story?" So, it became a bit uncomfortable for me, being expected to give my opinion on everyone else's efforts.

AL: What's your typical pattern for writing these days? Do you have a secluded place in your home where you do your research and writing?

McCammon: Late night, starting around 10 or so and going until I've figured I've done enough, which can go on all night. The night belongs to me. I've always been a night person and remain so. Many years ago — many years — I had to write down all my questions about a subject and trek to the library, but of course now with the internet that's not necessary. But I'll tell you that I could never write the Matthew Corbett series (set in the 1700s) without the internet of the 21st century. … There are just too many things that demand research. If I had to go to the library to look up everything, each book would take years to write.

Robert McCammon's apocalyptic novel "Swan Song" placed 94th on PBS' list of Americans' most-loved books. (contributed)

AL: Tell us about the online video you star in, "My Creations."

McCammon: A friend of mine is a film director. I told him what I wanted to do and that I had the song — or the "rap", if you please — and we went from there. I do believe it's the first music video ever made by a full-time writer who is not also a working musician. The reaction has been exactly what I hoped … that it was just "fun," and we really had a great time doing it. (Watch the video at robertmccammon.com.)

AL: I read that your next project was "The King of Shadows," in the Matthew Corbett series, followed by a book of short stories. Is that still on track?

McCammon: Yes, still on track. I'm hoping to finish "The King of Shadows" next month and then I'll be doing a book of Matthew Corbett short stories before I do the final book in the series. After that I have a couple of other projects in mind that I'm looking forward to. Several years ago, I was planning to retire when I got to "my age," but now … no way.

AL: As time goes on, what book or books of yours do fans seem to appreciate the most?

McCammon: "Swan Song," "Boy's Life" and the Matthew Corbett series. Of course, sometimes I get comments from people who've just read my first few books and love those. Sometimes it hits you out of the blue that a reader says a book you wrote 30 years ago has had a profound and positive influence on either them or a loved one. "The Wolf's Hour" has a pretty large following too, and I'm always getting requests to do a sequel to that, which is why I did the semi-sequel "The Hunter from The Woods" a few years back. But people want more. Which is good for me.

AL: What books would we find on your nightstand?

McCammon: You would find a mix of history, books on music and books on board games (which I collect, and I have thousands of them) and also a few of my also-vast collection of science fiction magazines like "Analog," "Fantastic," "Worlds of If" and "Amazing," which introduced me to reading as a kid and I now have every one of the issues that (no joke) my grandmother threw away. Now if only I could afford to get back all the Batman comic books of the 1950s and 1960s that she tossed out.

This story originally appeared in Alabama Living magazine.

The Results Are In: See Who Won SNHU's 5th Annual Fall Fiction Contest - Southern New Hampshire University

Posted: 04 Dec 2019 11:16 AM PST

The upper left corner of an old fashioned typewriter with a blank sheet of paper loaded and clipped in place.

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) received more than 500 short story submissions to its 5th annual Fall Fiction Contest. While there were many strong contenders this year, only five could be recognized.

First, an initial review board considered each story to identify 50 semi-finalists. Angelina Oberdan, a judge and adjunct faculty at SNHU, said an engaging first few paragraphs was critical to make the cut. Additionally, she read quite a few well-written stories that spent too much time in the conclusion. "The narrative should be complete, but it doesn't need to be tied with a bow," Oberdan said.

With criteria such as originality, thought process, character arc and grammatical correctness in mind, the semi-finalist judges identified the top stories. Their scores ended up being so close; it was up to the public to pick a winner.

The public voted, and the results are in:

The top three will receive $3,000, $2,000 and $1,000 scholarships, respectively, for SNHU's online or on-campus degree programs.

All five finalists had their stories published in The Penmen Review and will also receive a writing-themed prize package including copies of "Save the Cat! Writes A Novel: The Last Book on Novel Writing You'll Ever Need" by Jessica Brody and "2019: The Best American Short Stories."

First Place Goes to Full-Time Writer, Dad

Ben Jackson noticed there aren't too many older protagonists in fiction, let alone love stories about older couples. As his grandparents approached 90, he decided to address this gap in a writing workshop class at SNHU.

Ben Jackson and the text Ben Jackson "It's not often we see stories of men grieving a natural death of a spouse, and I wanted to see if I could create a moment to live in that space," Jackson said.

In a review by Courtney McDermott, a semi-finalist judge and adjunct faculty at SNHU, it's clear that Jackson created an authentic story. "Ben Jackson evokes nostalgia and Americana to write this bittersweet love story," she said. "Any baseball fan – and especially any Red Sox fan – will appreciate his love for the sport and the memories it creates."

Jackson recently returned to SNHU to finish his BA in Creative Writing & English after taking five years off to focus on his daughter, Emma, and her health.

Now that Jackson's reached a point where he can make a living doing what he loves most – writing, he returned to school to help him advance. He has found the critiques his instructors and classmates offer to be the most valuable, and going to school online allows him to work full-time while also serving as Emma's caretaker.

"SNHU fits into my life and is making (me) a better writer," he said.

Supported by Family, 19-Year-Old Places Second

E.M. Francisco and her father love all things horror, but often find the characters of the genre improbable. Taking matters into her own hands, "The Thing in My Closet" emerged from her frustrations.

E.M. Francisco and the text E.M. Francisco "I wanted to tell a horror story with a main character that sort of encapsulated everything we wanted a horror protagonist to do," Francisco said. "... Humans are pretty adaptive creatures, and it only makes sense that, eventually, after repeated exposures, a person would grow used to the freaky comings and goings."

Calling her story "fun, spooky and endearing," Christopher Sullivan, a semi-finalist judge and adjunct faculty at SNHU, appreciated this perspective. "Francisco's protagonist is believable, the setting is eerie, and the dramatic action is palpable," he said.

Though Francisco was surprised to learn her story took home second in the Fall Fiction Contest, her parents had been confident she'd place. After all, this isn't the first time she's achieved something big. She began college when she was just 16-years-old, having graduated from high school early.

"As an early high school graduate who wasn't ready to leave home, this online BA (in Creative Writing & English) program was everything I needed and more," she said. Not only could Francisco complete the degree she wanted from home, but she could do so without any student debt.

Now, at 19-years-old, she's one of the youngest writers to place in the Fall Fiction Contest. With her eyes set on becoming a manuscript editor for a publishing house, she's also considering a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing.

MFA Student Places Third with 'Otherworldly' Story

Destiny Rinder said she was ecstatic when she learned her story, "The Houses on the Sea," placed third in the Fall Fiction Contest. Though she's been writing since she was in elementary school, she only recently became serious about her passion.

Destiny Rinder and the text Destiny Rinder. The story behind "The Houses on the Sea" came to Rinder from a picture prompt. "Once I thought of the concept, it took me a couple of tries to find the best characters for the story," she said. Settling on a 6-year-old's account of the day her mother disappeared, "The Houses on the Sea" is her first published short story.

McDermott particularly liked the mystery it offered. "I was drawn to the otherworldly nature of "The Houses on the Sea" and Rinder's ability to craft a seaside setting," she said. "Part of the appeal of the story is in not knowing if the houses truly exist or not."

With a year to go until Rinder earns her MFA in Creative Writing at SNHU, she is thinking about how she can use the different elements of her classes to become a novelist and filmmaker. This term, she's learning about the publishing ecosystem and how to write query letters.

From Imposter Syndrome to Taking Fourth Place

Clover Autrey has been writing for a long time. She's experimented with different types of writing and honed her skills, yet she continues to struggle with imposter syndrome. "Sometimes, I feel like what I've written is truly worthwhile, but more often than not, I feel like I'm going to be called out as an amateur or fraud," she said.

Clover Autrey and the text Clover Autrey. So, when Autrey discovered her story was a finalist in the Fall Fiction Contest, she felt validated as a writer.

While writing "Forgotten Promise," she wanted to focus on creating emotion. "I find for me that pulling out emotion in short pieces with limited time to develop characters is not an easy thing to do," she said.

Based on judge feedback, it's apparent her attempt was successful. Noting Autrey's combination of visuals and details, Sullivan found the story to be gripping. "It has an almost cinematic feel to it," he said.

In just a few months, Autrey will complete her BA in English Language & Literature. "Without SNHU's online program in this degree, I would not have had the courage to return to college," she said. While working full-time as an administrative assistant, completing coursework on her schedule was her only option. Now, her sight is on teaching high school English.

History Student's First Story Earns Her Fifth Place

When Dotty Weaver walks her dog along the beach near her house, she discovers many unusual items in the dunes. One morning, she found an empty purse that left her crafting a story about its owner.

Dotty Weaver and the text Dotty Weaver. Following a dog owner happening upon a crime scene, "The Dunes of Dawn" was the first short story Weaver ever wrote. Having just completed a creative writing elective for her BA in History program, she decided to enter the Fall Fiction Contest.

"I was surprised and delighted to be selected as a finalist in the contest," Weaver said. "It was a wonderful thrill to see my work alongside other wonderful works of fiction."

The judges enjoyed the pacing of her mystery, and the suspense and satisfaction it brings in such a short amount of time.

While Weaver's primary goal is to teach U.S. history at a collegiate level, her early writing success is also inspiring her to write historical fiction.

Semi-Finalist Panel

Courtney McDermott holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA from the University of Notre Dame. Her debut collection of short stories, "How They Spend Their Sundays," was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and The Story Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous journals, and she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. McDermott has been teaching at SNHU since 2014, and she lives in Greater Boston with her husband and son.

Marcella Prokop lives on a hemp farm and hard cider orchard in Minnesota with her husband, son and two dogs. She teaches creative writing online for SNHU and literature at Augustana University in South Dakota, writing poetry and nonfiction when she has time. Her work has been published online or in print in journals, including Ploughshares, Pank, the Brooklyn Review and the Coal Hill Review, among others.

Christopher Sullivan, MFA, has worked as an adjunct instructor at SNHU since 2011 and has served as a member of The Penmen Review editorial board since 2012. Sullivan teaches numerous creative writing, screenwriting and English composition courses at SNHU, and he encourages his students to be fearless (and keep an open mind) as they study and sharpen their respective craft. In his spare time, Sullivan enjoys writing, reading and spending time with his beautiful family. He is also an avid Boston sports fan.

Emily Winters is a novelist and essayist from the Midwest. She studied creative writing and English at SNHU and has an MFA in Fiction from the university's Mountainview Low-Residency MFA program. Her writing has appeared in various magazines and online publications such as Assignment Magazine Online, The Everygirl and Business New Hampshire Magazine. In her spare time, Winters teaches creative writing and dance, travels incessantly, hikes at high altitudes (not in the Midwest) and mediates playtime between her rambunctious puppy and tired old cat. She lives in the Ann Arbor area with her husband.

Initial Review Panel

Joe Cote is a content writer on SNHU's marketing team after spending more than a decade as a newspaper reporter and editor in New Hampshire. He earned a BA in Journalism and Mass Communication. A one-time poetry major, Cote remains an avid reader of all things fantasy.

Crystal Curry is the author of two prizewinning poetry books, "But I Have Realized It" and "Our Chrome Arms of Gymnasium." She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Creative Writing and an Ed.M. in Human Resource Development. Curry has been an adjunct professor of creative writing and English at SNHU since 2012. She lives in the Bronx, New York, with her family.

Jennifer Loring's short fiction has been published widely both online and in print, appearing alongside Graham Masterton, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Ramsey Campbell, Kealan Patrick Burke, Steve Rasnic Tem and Clive Barker. She holds an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction with a concentration in Horror Fiction, is currently working toward her Ph.D. in Creative Writing, and teaches online at SNHU. Loring lives with her husband in Philadelphia, where they are owned by a turtle and two basset hounds.

Angelina Oberdan is a writer and instructor, hailing from Charlotte, North Carolina. She received an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) and an MA in English from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Oberdan's work has appeared in many journals, including Cold Mountain Review, Louisiana Literature, Mobius, Italian Americana, Southern Indiana Review and Yemassee, among others. She co-edited a collection of essays by and about Daniela Gioseffi, "Pioneering Italian American Culture: Escaping La Vita Della Cucina," published by Bordighera Press. When Oberdan isn't writing or teaching, she's hiking with her three dogs.

Cyndle Plaisted Rials lives in Maine between the mountains and the ocean. In addition to teaching creative writing courses at SNHU, she operates a small business designing and creating fiber art and accessories. Plaisted Rials earned her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and her poems have appeared in such places as Hunger Mountain, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Be Wilder: A Word Portland Anthology, among others. She is currently at work on her first novel.

Rebecca LeBoeuf '18 is a staff writer at Southern New Hampshire University. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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