Eating My Grandmother ― A Grief Cycle

Raised by her maternal grandmother, Australian novelist and bookseller Krissy Kneen was understandably bereft when she died. In the midst of writing a novel, she suddenly found herself paralyzed with grief and unable to write fiction. Instead, she became obsessed with writing poems about her grandmother as a way to assuage her loss. The result is an award-winning collection of poems that charts a cycle of grieving, offering a kaleidoscope of fitful dreams, tender memories and heart-struck musings that shine new light on our own sense of mortality.

Krissy Kneen is the award-winning author of the memoir Affection,Triptych: An Erotic Adventure, and the novel Steeplechase. Her short stories have been published in literary journals, books, and magazines, includingGriffith Review, Kill Your Darlings, Nerve.com, the Big Issue,Best Women’s Erotica 2014, Women of Letters, and the Lifted Brow.