J. Jacqueline McLean

A veteran TV journalist, I am the recipient of eight Emmys and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. Education: MFA, Writing, Hamline University; MA, Public Affairs Reporting, University of Illinois; BS, Journalism, Bradley University. My writings have appeared in Hawaii Review, River River, Wraparound South, York Literary Review, Rock, Paper, Scissors.

A Left Turn

Eleven years later, it is still haunting. The nagging headache is how it started. I stopped kidding myself a year ago. My brain will never return to the zoom, zoom fourteen-year-old who delighted at, “Mom, the paper boy, no, girl, is here.”

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 29, September 2019

J. Jacqueline McLean

A veteran TV journalist, I am the recipient of eight Emmys and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting. Education: MFA, Writing, Hamline University; MA, Public Affairs Reporting, University of Illinois; BS, Journalism, Bradley University. My writings have appeared in Hawaii Review, River River, Wraparound South, York Literary Review, Rock, Paper, Scissors.

A Left Turn

Eleven years later, it is still haunting. The nagging headache is how it started. I stopped kidding myself a year ago. My brain will never return to the zoom, zoom fourteen-year-old who delighted at, “Mom, the paper boy, no, girl, is here.”

Creative Nonfiction

Issue 29, September 2019

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