“The best quality of Marina Keegan’s writing to me is the immediacy with which she brings the common world before us, not as a panorama or display but in the course of unfolding the stories she has to tell. Writers as different as Alice Munro and Eudora Welty do this, and in the same way: as though the needs and fears and self-reflections of the characters all by themselves bring a world into being. It’s not a great world nor a cramped one; it’s a world the size her characters can generate, and it grows if they do. Few young writers can do this with as much (apparent) ease as she can. And if we must speak now of Marina in the past tense – she was — like all writers in their work she is forever in the present: she is.”
–John Crowley, professor, novelist, and adviser of Marina Keegan’s Writing Concentration Senior Project
Click here to read Marina Keegan’s story “Ingénue”