Student Profiles: Carrie Meadows
My
interest in creative writing is rooted in the stories of my family, stories
that changed form, shape, and meaning depending on who told them. My
grandmother was my first storybook, and she molded accounts of hardship and
loss into tales aimed at teaching me the moral values she held so dear: kindness,
forgiveness, and endurance. I am selfish in my creative endeavors; I
write to learn, and remember, who I am.
I am a southern American writer of short stories, not in the tradition of Flannery O’Connor or Faulkner or Welty, but in the tradition of my kin — the moralists, the exaggerators, even the flat-out liars, who taught me to explore my imagination.