![]() ![]() Hegi's first books were set in the United States. The same year, she was hired at Eastern Washington University, in Cheney, Washington, near Spokane, Washington, where she became an Associate Professor and taught creative writing and contemporary literature. In 1979, she graduated from the University of New Hampshire with both a bachelor's and master's degree. She moved to the United States in 1965, where she married (becoming Ursula Hegi) in 1967 and became a naturalized citizen the same year. She left West Germany in 1964, at the age of 18. This had a strong effect on her later writing and her feelings about her German identity. 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. ![]() She was born Ursula Koch in 1946 in Düsseldorf, Germany, a city that was heavily bombed during World War II. She is currently an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. ![]() Ursula Hegi (born May 23, 1946) is a German-born American writer. ![]()
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