The Cabin of Rocky Garston’s Refuge
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Graduation Year
2025
Writing Track
Narrative/Poetic Medicine
Degree
Master of Fine Arts
Program
Creative Writing
Program Director
Judy Halebsky, PhD
First Reader
Iris Dunkle
Second Reader
Judy Halebsky, PhD
Description
This is a work of Narrative Medicine in autofiction, fiction and poetry, presented in an experimental form. It was compiled from a selection of many short pieces written during the course of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Seven narrators present points of view in scene and exposition across the story arc.
The author worked with four mentors and studied craft in memoir, fiction, autofiction, and poetry, while reading works across these genres in traditional and experimental forms.
Rocky Garston is a brain-injured, autodidactic polymath on the autism spectrum whose life journey as an asexual, non-binary person traverses loss in many forms in this conflict of individual against society. Aiden Juhasz is their psychoanalyst
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