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“Some people travel to see new places and get focused on the next place, and the next, but I love revisiting places that hold memories.”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“Some people travel to see new places and get focused on the next place, and the next, but I love revisiting places that hold memories.”
Read More“As a child, I suffered from ‘anywhere but here’ syndrome, even though I was raised among people who thought a crosstown bus could take you too far away from home.”
Read MoreFour Questions on Farsickness is an interview series with creative writers for whom place is essential to their work.
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Read MoreThe flood of writing began almost immediately, and I don’t know if I’ll ever understand why. Was it the quality of the light that makes Oaxaca famous as the arts capital of Mexico, pulling artists from across the Americas to call it home?
Read MoreFarsickness explores place through creative writing: An online journal of literary travel.
The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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