“Unlocking the Secrets Beneath: Dive into the Haunting Depths of Stephanie Clare Smith’s ‘Everywhere the Undrowned'”
My half-century older self recognized this woman I have never met. Another writer putting her vulnerable self onto the page, opening a vein, as Hemingway might have said, to finally tell the story that needed telling.
Having read and loved Maggie Nelson’s Bluets, Smith writes, “Am I kin to her? Am I channeling her? Am I friends with her?
After reading Everywhere the Undrowned, I wonder the same about Smith.
Eileen Vorbach Collins writes true stories she wishes were fiction and fairy tales she wishes were true. Her work has been widely published and twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Eileen’s essay collection, Love in the Archives, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss, was a Foreword Indies finalist and received the Sarton Women’s Book Award for memoir. A Baltimore native, Eileen lives in Raleigh with her husband and Sugar, possibly the oldest Lab on the planet.
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