Q&A with Clinician Turned Novelist, John Vercher ’16MFAPosted in Articles, Arts, Interviews, Media Archive, United States on 2019-08-18 21:50Z by Steven |
Q&A with Clinician Turned Novelist, John Vercher ’16MFA
Southern New Hampshire University
Newsroom
2019-08-06
Rebecca LeBoeuf, Staff Writer
John Vercher ’16MFA didn’t think he had what it takes to make a career out of writing, so he went to school to be a clinician instead. After spending more than a decade feeling unhappy in his role, he decided to revisit his passion for writing.
Since Vercher hadn’t written regularly in a while, he knew going back to school was a smart move. Not only would it immerse him in the discipline and craft again, but it could even result in a publishable book.
And it did. Three years after Vercher graduated from Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Mountainview Low-Residency MFA program, he published his thesis and debut novel, “Three-Fifths,” out this September…
Read the entire interview here.