Goodbye to the Island

Authors

  • Rita Ciresi University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

creative nonfiction, Martha’s Vineyard, fear of flying, John F. Kennedy Jr., writers’ retreat

Abstract

In this personal essay, a writer leaving a Martha’s Vineyard writers’ retreat endures a short flight to Boston on a tiny plane with her eyes closed, haunted by the death of John F. Kennedy Jr.

Author Biography

  • Rita Ciresi, University of South Florida

    Rita Ciresi is author of the novels Bring Back My Body to Me, Pink Slip, Blue Italian, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You, and two award-winning story collections, Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket. Under the pen name of Meg West, she is author of Love on Longboat Key, a romantic comedy set on the west coast of Florida. She is professor of English at the University of South Florida, a faculty mentor for the Bay Path University MFA program in creative nonfiction, and fiction editor of 2 Bridges Review.

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Ciresi, Rita. “Goodbye to the Island”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 290–294, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/634.