40 Years of Writing Passion Realized in Farthest House

Lukas recalls.

Because of how hard she watched her mother work, raising all her siblings on a farm, women’s issues are important to Lukas, which she explores in depth in Farthest House. Because she also explores sensitive issues of organized religion, she waited until after her parents passed to write and publish Farthest House.

Taking a non-traditional route to her career, Margaret Lukas started her undergraduate work at 51 years of age. She received her BFA from the University of Nebraska Omaha’s (UNO) Writers Workshop in 2004 and her MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington in 2007. Lukas is a professor in UNO’s Creative Writing program. She is a contributor to NEBRASKAland magazine and editor for the quarterly literary journal, Fine Lines. Her writing also appears online and in the 2012 anthology, On Becoming, published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her award-winning short story,

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