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...Ziegler says she’s honed her literary skills by a variety of methods—including “by failing”—but is not enthusiastic about Harvard’s creative writing program...
...many Harvard students, Ziegler says, her home state might as well be on the moon. She’s spent the last four years doing what she can to change that, one short story at a time—all of which she’s set in Montana...
Well, almost all. Starting to make that generalization, Ziegler interrupts herself: “That’s not true. One story that won an award was set in Kansas. But it was really Montana.” Ziegler pauses. “I think I liked the rhythm of ‘Wichita...
...Ziegler is hardly the first author whose fiction takes place in a distinctive homeland. But she readily admits that Montana—once booming with a strip-mine economy, now characterized mainly by casinos, bars and interminable cold—is not an immediately attractive scene...
Though she is still months from sending a draft of her novel to publishers, Ziegler says she and her agent hope her work will create the “big splash” that a short story collection would not make...