McCann, Richard

Richard McCann&#8217;s work has appeared in <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Tin House</i>, and <i>Ploughshares</i>, and in many anthologies, including <i>Best American Essays 2000</i>. He is the author of <i>Ghost Letters</i>, a book of poems. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and from the Fulbright and Rockefeller Foundations. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he co-directs the graduate program in creative writing at Am...