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About Her: A Novel
Title
About Her: A Novel.
Creator
Mattingly, Mary, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
About Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to...
Show moreAbout Her is a story of grief, regret, and the lengths some of us will go to avoid confronting and healing from trauma. Charlotte Day is a twenty-year-old college student embarking on her senior year of college when her younger sister Abby dies in a botched fake suicide attempt. In the wake of said tragedy, Charlotte is left behind with her loving, well-intentioned father and sedated, increasingly distant mother. As Charlotte attempts to cling to normalcy, her efforts fail once she returns to school, seeking out a path of unhealthy relationships and partying, which culminates in the former honors student dropping out of her senior year. A coming-of-age story at its core, About Her explores the dysfunctional ways one young woman navigates grief and fractured relationships while learning to forgive herself along the way.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013237
Subject Headings
Novel, Creative writing, Grief
Format
Document (PDF)
body as /
Title
body as /.
Creator
Keane, Haley Bell, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
body as / is a collection of poetry exploring the body, mental health, spirituality, environment, and family.
Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013898
Subject Headings
Poetry, Creative writing
Format
Document (PDF)
Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon
Title
Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon.
Creator
Winn, Eileen, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon is a collection of poems that experiment with formal poetic structures to challenge abusive familial and religious structures, repurposing faithful sensibility to empower an irreverent speaker. Poems in this collection rewrite prayers, revise the outcomes of familial estrangement, and recollect history in order to reclaim the author’s queer American childhood, adulthood, and Catholic faith traditions.
Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013904
Subject Headings
Poems, Creative writing
Format
Document (PDF)
Enclaves
Title
Enclaves.
Creator
Piesco, Justin, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Enclaves is a fiction novel set on an Earth ravaged by climate change and follows characters trying to find meaning in a life constantly threatened by weather. It addresses themes of adventure, death, competition, and capitalistic consequence.
Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013833
Subject Headings
Fiction, Novel
Format
Document (PDF)
Flight of the white swan
Title
Flight of the white swan.
Creator
Carr, Nuala, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This collection of poetry and accompanying essay recount the author’s life as she grows up on a farm in Ireland to leaving and living in America. It is a journey that begins on the physical, external level and moves into a more metaphysical and internal one: the field on the farm becomes the field of the imagination; traditional sounds and rhythms become those of a more contemporary mode. Much of her life is viewed through the lens of the Irish myth, “The Children of Lir,” which encapsulates...
Show moreThis collection of poetry and accompanying essay recount the author’s life as she grows up on a farm in Ireland to leaving and living in America. It is a journey that begins on the physical, external level and moves into a more metaphysical and internal one: the field on the farm becomes the field of the imagination; traditional sounds and rhythms become those of a more contemporary mode. Much of her life is viewed through the lens of the Irish myth, “The Children of Lir,” which encapsulates the experiences of exile, loss, rebirth and the construction of identity. The author puts her background and education in poetry to good use as she deals with the challenges that arise.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004089, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004089
Format
Document (PDF)
FORCE RIPE
Title
FORCE RIPE.
Creator
Shand, Janine Ariel, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
At any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to...
Show moreAt any moment, a time comes where young women see their mothers outside of their motherly presence. Viewing them as a person beyond what they have done and accomplished beyond their offspring. What could be worse is the young woman sees and considers the realities and decisions her mother - this woman - has made and disagrees with them. It is a difficult place to be, in a position as a young woman and seeing the future laid before you embodied in the mother figure. The daughter can choose to push back and turn against the mother’s role and the woman she knows her mother to be; in order to terminate this prophesied future. Yet, there is promise if the daughter is somehow able to toss this image of the future aside, along with her ego to embrace her mother as a woman and not as an embodiment of the fear of an unknowable future.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013413
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Fiction, Mothers and daughters
Format
Document (PDF)
GAY CHRISTIAN SPEED DATING
Title
GAY CHRISTIAN SPEED DATING.
Creator
Donovan, Emily, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Journalists are supposed to stay neutral. But, when it comes to reporting on a viral protest against a gay conversion therapy program, young, lesbian reporter Anna Mitchell isn’t so sure she agrees with what’s neutral anymore. Gay Christian Speed Dating takes place in Iowa City, Iowa and follows Anna Mitchell, who has moved in with her parents after getting laid off from her prestigious breaking news job. When performance artist college kids go viral protesting a local gay conversion therapy...
Show moreJournalists are supposed to stay neutral. But, when it comes to reporting on a viral protest against a gay conversion therapy program, young, lesbian reporter Anna Mitchell isn’t so sure she agrees with what’s neutral anymore. Gay Christian Speed Dating takes place in Iowa City, Iowa and follows Anna Mitchell, who has moved in with her parents after getting laid off from her prestigious breaking news job. When performance artist college kids go viral protesting a local gay conversion therapy program, it might be Anna’s one shot to get back in the journalism game. But Anna has conflicts of interest: a crush on the girl who is leading the protest, and, even worse, her own opinions on the subject matter that she can’t seem to keep from spilling. This contemporary new adult novel is 42,000 words in a tone of The Great Believers meets Priestdaddy.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013485
Subject Headings
Novels, Gay fiction, Creative writing
Format
Document (PDF)
I Would Rather Talk About Persimmons
Title
I Would Rather Talk About Persimmons.
Creator
Feimi, Mary, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
I Would Rather Talk About Persimmons aims to understand the roots of trauma, addiction, and lineage. A discovery of what it means to be half American, half Albanian. A discovery of loving the people in our lives no matter how imperfect, no matter how painful no matter the sacrifice. The work seeks to understand the existence of joy and pain in the ways they work together and by doing so we see that emotions of the human experience are not linear, rather chaotic.
Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014208
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Poetry
Format
Document (PDF)
Imagine Me Like That
Title
Imagine Me Like That.
Creator
Wilcox, Kate, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Imagine Me Like That offers an exploration into an experience of one coming to terms with one’s unique trans and queer identity through ecological and nature-based connections, as well as through interpersonal connections. This collection utilizes both poetry and lyric essay to offer insights into the joys of queer ways of living, while also acknowledging the difficulties of occupying a marginalized identity. Ultimately, Imagine Me Like That seeks to affirm and acknowledge the multi-faceted...
Show moreImagine Me Like That offers an exploration into an experience of one coming to terms with one’s unique trans and queer identity through ecological and nature-based connections, as well as through interpersonal connections. This collection utilizes both poetry and lyric essay to offer insights into the joys of queer ways of living, while also acknowledging the difficulties of occupying a marginalized identity. Ultimately, Imagine Me Like That seeks to affirm and acknowledge the multi-faceted modes of queer existence.
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Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014201
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Poetry
Format
Document (PDF)
Island organic
Title
Island organic.
Creator
Ewan, Beau, McKay, Becka, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
As a creative nonfiction project, Island Organic is a hybrid of the genre, a collection of autobiographical essays and profiles of some of Hawaii’s most amazing people and places. The goal was to reveal each person’s contribution to the social fabric of Hawaii, depicting his or her unique relationship with the islands and how meeting them influenced the evolution of my own. While much creative nonfiction has been written about Hawaii and its surfing community, much of it glosses over the...
Show moreAs a creative nonfiction project, Island Organic is a hybrid of the genre, a collection of autobiographical essays and profiles of some of Hawaii’s most amazing people and places. The goal was to reveal each person’s contribution to the social fabric of Hawaii, depicting his or her unique relationship with the islands and how meeting them influenced the evolution of my own. While much creative nonfiction has been written about Hawaii and its surfing community, much of it glosses over the serious social, environmental, and political issues unfolding there. Few writers, let alone surfers, have written about America’s current role in the Hawaiian Islands as an example of neo-colonialist authoritarianism.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004246
Format
Document (PDF)
Letters for Burning
Title
Letters for Burning.
Creator
Precanico, Joseph Dante, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to...
Show moreThis creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to or in conversation with friends, family, lovers, strangers, past selves, and other writers. Although the three sections (LETTERS, FIRE, and HEARTH) that demarcate this work chart a thematic chronology that organizes stages of a queer life, memory isn’t cleanly linear. Poems pour into and echo each other, signifying embodied history in the present and the past’s bearings on queer (re)imaginings of the future.
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Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014152
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Poems
Format
Document (PDF)
Meaning of sound
Title
Meaning of sound.
Creator
Mohi, Negean, McKay, Becka, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This collection of poetry is a hybrid in language and sound. Each poem pulls from the ghazal, a traditional Persian form of poetry, and incorporates an American English sound that creates the essence of meaning in a new species of poetry. The makeup of each poem has gone through redefining steps as outlined in the sectioning of the manuscript. Section one explores and examines the Persian roots of this new poetry’s origins by discussing the author’s experiences through the works of Hafez, a...
Show moreThis collection of poetry is a hybrid in language and sound. Each poem pulls from the ghazal, a traditional Persian form of poetry, and incorporates an American English sound that creates the essence of meaning in a new species of poetry. The makeup of each poem has gone through redefining steps as outlined in the sectioning of the manuscript. Section one explores and examines the Persian roots of this new poetry’s origins by discussing the author’s experiences through the works of Hafez, a national poet of Iran. Section two creates a contemporary view of the composite poetry from experiences within the department of English’s Masters of Fine Arts program at Florida Atlantic University. Section three concludes the creation of the new form of poetry with a modern influence on the author’s background and educational experiences by incorporating experimental styles and popular culture references.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA0004039
Format
Document (PDF)
MET4MORFOSES
Title
MET4MORFOSES.
Creator
Padavano, Anthony James, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
MET4MORFOSES is an interactive multimedia project marrying ancient mythic narrative, tabloid celebrity worship, bombardment of consumerist driven advertising, social media, high technology, and futuristic forms of communication with speculative science fiction.
Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00005977
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Interactive multimedia
Format
Document (PDF)
Plicature
Title
Plicature.
Creator
White, James A.H., McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis is a manuscript of poetry written during my time in Florida Atlantic University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. The included poems focus on my positive and negative experiences with travel and cultural identity. These themes communicate with each other to form a cohesive catalogue of poems of a variety of forms and styles. My emphasis in writing the poems including in this manuscript was to both share and learn more about how my struggles with displacement, exclusion, and loss...
Show moreThis thesis is a manuscript of poetry written during my time in Florida Atlantic University’s MFA in Creative Writing program. The included poems focus on my positive and negative experiences with travel and cultural identity. These themes communicate with each other to form a cohesive catalogue of poems of a variety of forms and styles. My emphasis in writing the poems including in this manuscript was to both share and learn more about how my struggles with displacement, exclusion, and loss have led to a greater awareness of my voice, heritage, and craft.
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Date Issued
2016
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004641, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004641
Format
Document (PDF)
Self-Gardening
Title
Self-Gardening.
Creator
Reeves, Naudia, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Self-Gardening seeks to explore the oftentime selfish rationale behind seemingly selfless decisions. In dissecting my motivation, I found insecurity. I don't garden for the joy of it, I garden to feel valuable. Beneath my desire for children, lives the terrifying hesitation of putting more bad into the world. While this thesis does look to shine a light on uncomfortability and insecurity, it has no interest in poking or prodding them. Acknowledgement and awareness are enough.
Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014194
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Poetry
Format
Document (PDF)
STRATEGIES OF DISCONNECTION: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION
Title
STRATEGIES OF DISCONNECTION: A SHORT STORY COLLECTION.
Creator
Graves, Daniel, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Strategies of Disconnection is short story collection focusing on memes or rather the intersection of modern internet meme culture, meme theory, and Christianity, capturing the realities of an era of memetic upheaval (in 2016 the search term “Meme” overtook the term “Jesus” in popularity) when the digital and the spiritual seem to overlap, both contending for attention. Memes are culturally analogous to genes, both serving as entities driven toward survival and reproduction. Yet, and entities...
Show moreStrategies of Disconnection is short story collection focusing on memes or rather the intersection of modern internet meme culture, meme theory, and Christianity, capturing the realities of an era of memetic upheaval (in 2016 the search term “Meme” overtook the term “Jesus” in popularity) when the digital and the spiritual seem to overlap, both contending for attention. Memes are culturally analogous to genes, both serving as entities driven toward survival and reproduction. Yet, and entities analogous to genes, memes find themselves contending for survival. These stories inhabit the perspective of memes as characters attempting to acknowledge existence alongside their genetic counterparts: An unnamed creator who falls for Lucy, the first set of hominid bones, an actor who avoids notoriety after having played the role of god, and internet troll Anon, who lives on 4chan.
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Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013469
Subject Headings
Short stories, Memes, Memetics
Format
Document (PDF)
The perpetual motion machine
Title
The perpetual motion machine.
Creator
Ackerman, Brittany, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
The Perpetual Motion Machine is a collection of creative nonfiction essays about the author and her brother as they have experienced growing up both together and then apart throughout the years of their lives. The essays deal with the pair’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood as well as the issues of depression, anxiety and drug addiction. Some pieces are flash-style and others are longer works of lyric essay or general narrative. The pieces can both stand alone and work to create a larger,...
Show moreThe Perpetual Motion Machine is a collection of creative nonfiction essays about the author and her brother as they have experienced growing up both together and then apart throughout the years of their lives. The essays deal with the pair’s childhood, adolescence and adulthood as well as the issues of depression, anxiety and drug addiction. Some pieces are flash-style and others are longer works of lyric essay or general narrative. The pieces can both stand alone and work to create a larger, substantial narrative on how drug addiction affects an entire family, one’s whole world, thus telling a story about how the author must find herself through investigating her brother’s trials and tribulations with addiction.
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Date Issued
2015
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004340
Subject Headings
Addicts--Family relationships, Brothers and sisters--Family relationships, Brothers and sisters--Psychological aspects., Dysfunctional families--Psychological aspects, Substance abuse--Psychological aspects, Compulsive behavior--Social aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Whose Names I Do Not Know
Title
Whose Names I Do Not Know.
Creator
Martin, Kathleen, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
The nature of conflict occupied my mind as I pieced together the 2016 election. Much of my dazed shock was the weight of hearing all at once a group of people who had felt ignored. I felt compelled to write about the nature of conflict — how opposing sides see one another with similar levels of skepticism and derision that comes from fear that something essential will be lost. I wanted to write about this without directly discussing politics. Instead, I used nature. I find warmth and...
Show moreThe nature of conflict occupied my mind as I pieced together the 2016 election. Much of my dazed shock was the weight of hearing all at once a group of people who had felt ignored. I felt compelled to write about the nature of conflict — how opposing sides see one another with similar levels of skepticism and derision that comes from fear that something essential will be lost. I wanted to write about this without directly discussing politics. Instead, I used nature. I find warmth and stillness when I’m unanswerable to any other person as the steady and constant presence of trees and sky contrast my frantic mind until it slows down. This collection uses nature as a vehicle for conflict – a piece of land at war with itself, and the fragility of the family who tries to make their home there.
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013027
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Conflict
Format
Document (PDF)
Yesterday Will Come
Title
Yesterday Will Come.
Creator
D'Sa, Meryl, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
Yesterday Will Come is a hybrid collection of linked short stories that focuses on the way a particular family passes down the family history through physical and emotional memories. The collection largely focuses on the process of making and preserving memories and how the lack of control over one’s memory can lead to paranoia and displacement in their life. Particular value is attached to certain memories and the value and emotion attached can at times overwrite the actual content of the...
Show moreYesterday Will Come is a hybrid collection of linked short stories that focuses on the way a particular family passes down the family history through physical and emotional memories. The collection largely focuses on the process of making and preserving memories and how the lack of control over one’s memory can lead to paranoia and displacement in their life. Particular value is attached to certain memories and the value and emotion attached can at times overwrite the actual content of the memory. The stories center around the Riviera family and particularly Ana Riviera’s life as she considers the many aspects of her family history she continues to inherit and the comfort and paranoia she associates with such inheritance.
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Date Issued
2019
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013200
Subject Headings
Short stories, Creative writing, Family history
Format
Document (PDF)
YOU CAN STILL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
Title
YOU CAN STILL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
Creator
Buijk, Cherri, McKay, Becka, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Date Issued
2020
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013464
Subject Headings
Creative writing, Fiction
Format
Document (PDF)