Raised in Spooner, Wis., Debra Monroe memorized the assigned cultural refrain still lingering in the 1960s: Marry young; work only until a husband protests; "career" is part of a language not your own ...

Blunt and salty, Debra Monroe's new memoir traces the jagged line of her improbable trajectory: from a blue-collar girl in Spooner, Wis., to a professor in Texas State University's Master of Fine Arts ...

Debra Monroe teaches in the MFA Program at Texas State University and is the author of six books, including The Source of Trouble (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award) and On the Outskirts of Normal ...

Debra Monroe claims not to be a trailblazer, but I’m willing to bet this paycheck that no one else has beaten a path from Spooner, Wisconsin to San Marcos via Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Manhattan, Kansas, ...

Writer and teacher Debra Monroe, author of five previous books, shares a chapter from her new memoir-in-progress, about being the first in her family to go to college. It gives me a lot of pleasure, ...

The mechanics and emotion of writing will highlight the theme of the next installment in the Good Thunder Reading Series at Minnesota State University, when author Debra Monroe comes to visit next ...

Hear Debra Monroe read from her book, “On the Outskirts of Normal,” about her experience being a white mom raising a black daughter in a small town in Central Texas. The event starts at 7pm, June 17 ...

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Debra Monroe is the author of six books, including the memoir, “My Unsentimental Education,” which, in the words of Rosellen Brown, “raises a dozen potent question about what has changed for a ...

Blunt and salty, Debra Monroe's new memoir traces the jagged line of her improbable trajectory: from a blue-collar girl in Spooner, Wis., to a professor in Texas State University's Master of Fine Arts ...