The Ana McCracken, MFA recounts starting to write the story of meeting their birth mother on the day she died in 1999 and discusses how their book was left unfinished until 2017. They talk about moving back from San Francisco to Ames, realizing the need for deadlines, and enrolling in a creative writing program to complete a full draft. The three-year program, likened to a full-time job, allowed the speaker to write within their community.

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