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Kelly Kathleen Ferguson
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For a three years I kept a blog with two other Montana MFAs, the idea being we would chronicle that murky, post-graduation time when you live somewhere between apprentice writer and published author. Followers of the blog (mostly MFAs or MFA hopefuls) often said their favorite posts were when we admitted how hard that first year out can be.
I’ve since recovered (sort of) and I would now describe...
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My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself
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My Life as Laura: How I Searched for Laura Ingalls Wilder and Found Myself (Nonfiction)
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Kelly Kathleen Ferguson needed to know—was connecting with her lifelong heroine the key to knowing herself? Determined to find out, she donned a prairie dress and retraced the pioneer journey of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Along the way, Kelly met other women in prairie dresses. There were combines. She ran with the cows in Kansas. She took too many rocks from Lake Pepin. She transversed countless cornfields of the Great Plains—both organic and irradiated. She drove. She drove a lot. From Wisconsin to Minnesota, South Dakota to Missouri, Kelly examined Laura’s past and her own. Part travelogue, part memoir and part social commentary, Kelly discovered how an adult relationship with a little girl, who lived in little houses long ago, could give her a sense of purpose for today.
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