Rebecca Clarren

Rebecca Clarren has been writing about the American West for more than twenty years. She is the winner of the 2021 Whiting Nonfiction Grant for her work on The Cost of Free Land. Her journalism, for which she has won the Hillman Prize, an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship, and ten grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism, has appeared in such publications as Mother Jones, High Country News, The Nation, and Indian Country Today. Her debut novel, Kickdown (Sky Horse Press, 2018), was shortlisted for the PEN/Bellwether Prize.

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

October 11, 2023 By Rebecca Clarren

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Rebecca Clarren

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

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