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Harris, Linnea, author Dungy, Camille, advisor Candelaria-Fletcher, Harrison, committee member Bowser, Gillian, committee member 2025-09-01T10:42:00Z 2027-08-25 2025 Harris_colostate_0053N_19042.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10217/241746 https://doi.org/10.25675/3.02066 Grafting the Cactus is a book-length work of creative nonfiction that explores the porous boundary between landscape and identity. This collection of personal and environmental essays begins with a cholla cactus, ripped from a landscaped yard in Colorado and left on the side of the road, then recovered and regrown. Many cacti can be grafted, meaning pieces of two different species – perhaps native to two different landscapes – will fuse together into something made up of both. Grafting becomes a structuring metaphor for the collection, and for the speaker who seeks to understand how identity can grow like the grafted cactus, informed by the places she's lived. These essays explore what it means to make home in different places, and what it means to build an identity informed by each – and how, when these landscapes that make us up are altered – by pollution, by climate change, by other human impacts – we too change. born digital masters theses English eng Colorado State University. Libraries 2020- Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright. Embargo expires: 08/25/2027. Grafting the cactus Text 2027-08-25 2027-08-25 This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights (https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/). You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Masters English Colorado State University restricted