The Small Door of Your Death

In this brilliant, wrenchingly beautiful book, Sheryl St. Germain limns the unbearable death of her son via a heroin overdose, the agonizing history of her family’s addictions, and her own fragile recovery. This book is an invaluable companion for anyone who has wrestled with addiction, or lost a loved one to it. St. Germain knows both the rawness of grief, and the ways we must find to go on living. She can help us learn.
—Ruth L. Schwartz

About the author:

Sheryl St. Germain has published six poetry books, three essay collections, and co-edited two anthologies, for which she has received numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. Her latest, Fifty Miles, a collection of essays, appeared in 2020 with Etruscan Press. Recently retired as Director of the MFA Creative Writing program at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, she now resides in Savannah, Georgia, where in addition to writing, she makes fiber art. 

Sheryl’s son, Gray, died in 2014 of a drug overdose.  Her last book of poetry, The Small Door of Your Death, (Autumn House Press) and her latest collection of lyric essays, Fifty Miles, both take as their subject the life and death of her son, and offer a personal look at the toll addiction takes on family and country.

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