St. Germain's Essay 'Visitations' Featured on Short Reads

Kobo Gallery’s Sheryl St. Germain’s essay Visitations is currently featured on Short Reads, a free, flash-nonfiction literary magazine. The essay is found in the second chapter of her memoir 50 Miles, which can be purchased at Kobo Gallery.

Visit Short Reads Website to read Visitations by Sheryl St. Germain

Originally from New Orleans, Sheryl has published six poetry books, two collections of essays and co-edited two anthologies. The Small Door of your Death, a collection of poems about the death of her son appeared in 2018 with Autumn House Press. She directed the MFA program and creative writing at Chatham University, taught poetry and creative non-fiction, and is the founder of the Words Without Walls program.

Sheryl is a poet, essayist, and fiber artist that has lost a father, brother and son to substance abuse. She has long been drawn to writing poems and prose that speak for those who are voiceless specifically those suffering from substance abuse, or those in relation to them. She has written often about the landscape and culture of New Orleans and Southwest Louisiana, as well as the natural disasters that have been visited on her family and home there.

50 Miles by Sheryl St. Germain. Sheryl currently resides in Savannah, Georgia,
where she writes and makes fiber art. More at sherylstgermain.com.