Missed
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[EMBARGOED UNTIL 08/01/2026] Missed is a hybrid collection of creative and scholarly essays about death, disability, nurturing, and female embodiment. All of the essays exhibit various traits of contemporary creative nonfiction (CNF) prose and honor the ever-growing field's emphasis on honesty, vulnerability, and rigorous intellectual engagement. Certain essays highlight the short, imagery-heavy, "flash" form of CNF; others rely on long-form, firstperson narrative to move the plot forward. Each piece is meant to be formally innovative as well as emotionally courageous, as the elements of Missed are intended to function as a testament to the expressive potential of the creative nonfiction genre. The author's intent in writing Missed was to show how storytellers--and, more broadly, storytelling as an artform of the folk--can transform personal, private devastation into a public literary and cultural witnessing that benefits all who participate in the story-making and storylistening experience. There are so many unknowable and ineffable realities that permeate a human lifeform's existence, and Missed's subjects of absence, silences/silencing, grief and loss, and the notion of "poisonous gifts" thematically participate in a greater, ongoing conversation in the academic arenas of creative nonfiction writing, disability/illness narratives, and folklore studies.
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