Fritz McDonald (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) taught for more than 20 years in the acclaimed Iowa Summer Writing Festival. He edited Peg Mullen’s memoir, Unfriendly Fire (University of Iowa Press), and has contributed essays to The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Hyperion) and to Now Write! Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin). His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Confrontation, The Nashville Review, and Joyland. He’s the writer behind the PBS-UNC-TV documentary North Carolina, and co-author of the graphic novel 2184 ½ with the artist Thomas Jackson. His novel Woods is a finalist in the 2022-23 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. “Mendocino” is excerpted from his memoir-in-progress, Daylight Moon.
