Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk [1]) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse. [2]
Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota. [3]
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 di Rottura, is also available in Italian. [5] Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade [6] and Forward's Poems of the Decade. [7] Read's first collection of poetry since her conversion, Dawn of this Hunger took first place for poetry at the Catholic Media Association Awards in 2022. [8] She has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Catholic Herald, The Tablet, The Humanum Review and Magnificat among other periodicals and papers. Read has also published a memoir, Night's Bright Darkness (2016) (see below) with a further memoir The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire. [9] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film [10] for EWTNGB by Norman Servais and Kevin Turley. She is editor of Word on Fire's 100 Great Catholic Poems (Nov 2023)
A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010. [11] [12] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness. [13]
Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 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. [14] Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion.
Read lives with her husband and daughter (Celia Florence, to whom her book “Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World” is dedicated) in Santa Marinella. [14]
Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk [1]) is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse. [2]
Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota. [3]
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 di Rottura, is also available in Italian. [5] Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade [6] and Forward's Poems of the Decade. [7] Read's first collection of poetry since her conversion, Dawn of this Hunger took first place for poetry at the Catholic Media Association Awards in 2022. [8] She has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Catholic Herald, The Tablet, The Humanum Review and Magnificat among other periodicals and papers. Read has also published a memoir, Night's Bright Darkness (2016) (see below) with a further memoir The Mary Pages forthcoming from Word on Fire. [9] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film [10] for EWTNGB by Norman Servais and Kevin Turley. She is editor of Word on Fire's 100 Great Catholic Poems (Nov 2023)
A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010. [11] [12] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness. [13]
Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 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. [14] Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion.
Read lives with her husband and daughter (Celia Florence, to whom her book “Annunciation: A Call to Faith in a Broken World” is dedicated) in Santa Marinella. [14]