Deeren & Fahnestock: Let's Talk About Let's Talk About It
LETS TALK ABOUT LETS TALK ABOUT IT
By Raymond Deeren@ rsdeeren and McLean Fahnestock @mcfahnestock
Raymond Deeren is the author of Enough to Lose: Stories. He received his MFA from Columbia College Chicago and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He was the 2016 Union League Club of Chicago Library's Writer in Residence and a 2015 Luminarts Cultural Foundation Creative Writing Fellow. The title story to Enough to Lose has been anthologized in Tales of Two Americas edited by John Freeman. His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appears in The Great Lakes Review, Joyland, Midwestern Gothic, and elsewhere. He is from rural Michigan, where he worked as a line cook, a substitute teacher, a landscaper, a banker, and a lumberjack. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
McLean Fahnestock seeks out footage, images, and items that expand our understanding of place and carry the character of exploration. McLean received a BFA from Middle Tennessee State University and MFA from California State University Long Beach. Her work has been exhibited and screened across the United States and Internationally. McLean is the Chair of the Department of Art + Design at APSU.