While other young writers tended to write about themselves or what they knew,
Ms. #Renee #Good consistently sought to write beyond her own experience, the director of the MFA program recalled in an interview on Thursday.
She wrote about elderly people, veterans and people from different places in other times.
“What I saw in her work was a writer that was trying to illuminate the lives of others,” he said.

That alone was remarkable, but even more so was the fact that she was completing her coursework while pregnant and working to support herself, he said.

When the coronavirus pandemic shutdowns began in the spring of 2020 and lessons went remote,
Ms. Good continued to show up for class and sought to make sure others did, too.

“I very much remember her being someone who made others feel better in that moment,” he said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/renee-good-ice-minneapolis.html