Austin Peay Professor, Raymond Deeren, To Publish Short Story Collection About Working-Class Life In Michigan's Thumb Region
November 09, 2022
November 09, 2022
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 9 (TNSbook) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news:
As a teen and college student, Raymond Deeren worked in rural Michigan as a line cook, substitute teacher, landscaper and lumberjack. But it's another odd job that he had while attending Saginaw Valley State University that set the cornerstone of his creative writing for the next 10-plus years.
"The housing market collapsed, and I was mowing lawns of bank reposs . . .
As a teen and college student, Raymond Deeren worked in rural Michigan as a line cook, substitute teacher, landscaper and lumberjack. But it's another odd job that he had while attending Saginaw Valley State University that set the cornerstone of his creative writing for the next 10-plus years.
"The housing market collapsed, and I was mowing lawns of bank reposs . . .