Sally Read
Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk[1]) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse.[2]
Early life and education[]
Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota.[3]
Work and awards[]
Read shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001.[4] Her first collection, The Point of Splitting, was shortlisted for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection prize. A selection of her works, Punto della Rottura, is also available in Italian.[5]
Religious and personal life[]
A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010.[6][7] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness.[8]
Read is a poet in residence at The Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which is an eparchial-rite form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon.[9] Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion.
Read lives with her husband and daughter in Santa Marinella.[9]
Works[]
- The Point of Splitting (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)
- Broken Sleep (Bloodaxe Books, 2009)
- The Day Hospital (Bloodaxe Books, 2012)
- Night's Bright Darkness: A Modern Conversion Story (Ignatius Press, 2016)
- Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World (Ignatius Press, 2019)
References[]
- ^ Interview in City Desert
- ^ Chohan, Rhia (8 September 2009). "Poets Give Chapter and Verse on Caring". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Bloodaxe Books Author Page Archived 20 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Society of Authors page on past winners of the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards
- ^ Birmingham City University
- ^ ABC.Net Emotions and Beliefs
- ^ Catholic News Agency
- ^ Romanowsky, Zoe (12 November 2016). "Former Atheist Psychiatric Nurse Now Calls Herself 'Eucharistic'". Aleteia. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "About Us". The Asketerion: The Journal of the Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs. 2014. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
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