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
  1. Interview in City Desert
  2. 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.
  3. Bloodaxe Books Author Page Archived 20 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Society of Authors page on past winners of the Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards
  5. Birmingham City University
  6. ABC.Net Emotions and Beliefs
  7. Catholic News Agency
  8. 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.
  9. "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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