Semester

Spring

Date of Graduation

2024

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Type

MFA

College

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Department

English

Committee Chair

Christa Parravani

Committee Member

Brian Broome

Committee Member

Sarah Manguso

Abstract

Control Freak Loser Bitches Need Love, Too is a personal essay collection examining how author Megan Williams attempts to obsessively control her own body after suffering sexual harassment and assault in her girlhood. Even a decade later, Williams grapples with the shame of being silenced due to her weight. She shrinks down one-hundred and fifty pounds in the hopes of making a body that is hers and hers alone, but finds hunger cannot heal her. Through narrative, lyric, and experimental storytelling, Williams weaves a devastating, humorous, and warm tapestry about the ways we get worse before we get better.

Embargo Reason

Permanent Embargo – MFA Creative Writing

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