Georgia College Knowledge Box Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses Masters of Fine Arts Theses Spring 5-1-2020 Chasing Peacocks Jennifer Watkins
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://kb.gcsu.edu/nonfiction Part of the Nonfiction Commons Recommended Citation Watkins, Jennifer, "Chasing Peacocks" (2020). Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses. 5. https://kb.gcsu.edu/nonfiction/5 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Masters of Fine Arts Theses at Knowledge Box. It has been accepted for inclusion in Creative Nonfiction MFA Theses by an authorized administrator of Knowledge Box. Chasing Peacocks A thesis presented to The Graduate Faculty of The College of Arts and Sciences Department of English Georgia College & State University In partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Jennifer Watkins April 2020 Acknowledgements Thank you to all of those who read many of the early pages and drafts of this collection. I am grateful for the help from these honest and patient people. Thank you first of all to Peter Selgin who promised to continue pushing me so that I could be a better writer. I truly appreciate the faith and respect as well as the time it took to give thorough, much needed comments. Thanks also to Kerry Neville who not only sat in as my thesis advisor for a semester, but always took time to give clear feedback. She continues to encourage me to do more. A final thanks to Ruby Holsenbeck, Charlotte Lauer, and Dalton Monk who have read so many versions of essays outside of class time.