Susan Straight had a front-row seat to the impacts of COVID-19, from the window of her home in Riverside’s Wood Streets. During COVID-19, nurses working shifts at Riverside Community Hospital lived in RVs or rented rooms near the hospital, which is in Straight’s neighborhood. “They would walk by my house for their 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. shifts,” Straight...

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Susan Straight, a distinguished professor of creative writing at UC Riverside, has been nominated for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for her debut memoir, “In the Country of Women.”