Honoring Grief

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Writing poetry has been part of Dr. Susan A. Wright’s life since she was fourteen, and she was published in Creative Kids magazine during high school. Her publishing history includes poems in anthologies and journals such as Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, Secrets of the Soul, The Russell Creek Review, Crossroads, Connections, and The Campbellsville Review.

Dr. Wright earned her MA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing, and her creative thesis was directed by Sena Jeter Naslund. She earned her PhD in Composition from the University of Louisville. 

Currently, Dr. Wright teaches English at a small private university and lives in Kentucky with her cat.

Visit her at:
drsusanawright.wixsite.com/poet

Paperback: 68 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (June 30, 2025)

Also available on Kindle

In this debut collection, Susan A. Wright confronts death, memory, trauma, and survival with honesty and a clear sense of language’s power to stand against pain. These poems move from the intimate—graveside farewells, childhood loss, the ache of love’s absence—to the infinite, imagining grief as a force that spans galaxies but still can't seem to leave the body or memory.  Shrines of emotional edge, altars of fragile recollection, and the world’s manifold havocs are named with both reverence and resistance as Wright explores the quiet strength required of recovery: "Don’t make me walk on water. When the rain clears, can I build a bridge to carry me?"