FRITZ MCDONALD

Fritz McDonald (M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) taught for more than 20 years in the acclaimed Iowa Summer Writing Festival. He edited Peg Mullen’s memoir, Unfriendly Fire (University of Iowa Press), and has contributed essays to The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Hyperion) and to Now Write! Memoir, Journalism, and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers (Tarcher/Penguin).

His work has appeared in Confrontation, The Nashville Review, and Joyland, and he’s the writer behind the PBS-UNC-TV documentary North Carolina.