Biography of ursula hegi stefan blau

German-born American writer (born )

Ursula Hegi (born May 23, ) is a German-born American writer.

Biography of ursula hegi stefan blau

She is currently an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.

She was born Ursula Koch in in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World War II.^[1] Her perception growing up was that the war was avoided as a topic of discussion despite its evidence everywhere, and The Holocaust was a particularly taboo topic.^[1] This had a strong effect on her later writing and her feelings about her German identity.

She left West Germany in , at the age of ^[2] She moved to the United States in , where she married (becoming Ursula Hegi) in and became a naturalized citizen the same year.^[1] In , she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with both a bachelor's and master's degree.^[1] She was divorced in The same year, she was hired at Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington, n