Mr. Potato Head vs. Freud: Lessons on the Craft of Writing Fiction

Clint McCown is the only two-time recipient of the American Fiction Prize, he has also received the Midwest Book Award, the Sister Mariella Gable Prize, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Germaine Breé Book Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers designation, and a Distinction in Literature citation from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has published four novels, six collections of poems, and one collection of stories, Music for Hard Times: New & Selected Stories. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in over seventy-five national journals and magazines. He has edited a number of literary magazines, including Indiana Review and the Beloit Fiction Journal, which he founded. He currently teaches in the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts low-residency MFA program. In 2021 he was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame at Wake Forest University.