Glen Retief

Biography

Glen Retief grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He has published short stories and personal essays in the US and South Africa. He works as an assistant professor of Creative Nonfiction at the Writers’ Institute at Susquehanna University and is currently completing his first book-length memoir.

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ESSAYS / Spring 2008

The Jack Bank

By Glen Retief

No, there will never be any shortage of labels; but at core, these academic designations will always remain, for me, rather bloodless. They will dance around my mind, flimsy moth-shadows; from time to time they will make cameo appearances...