Felicity Sheehy
Felicity Sheehy’s poems appear in the New Republic, the Yale Review, the Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Jane Martin Poetry Prize for UK residents under thirty. In 2019, she was named one of Narrative’s 30 Under 30 Writers. Originally from Hudson Valley, New York, she is a PhD candidate at Cambridge University.
Reading List
At the Witch’s Door
At first, it must have felt warm: the cinnamon smell of the entry hall and its pillows, softer than dough, the golden beams, strung up with chicory, and somewhere the sounds of cooking— the clatter of spoon on stone, the cheer of the lit match—like the sounds their mother would make, years ago, her hair […]
The Night Traveler
Sometimes on long drives upstate, the temperature falling as surely as the snow in the valley, the barn owl calling to the trees, and the low hills sinking into whiteness, like the bedtimes of my childhood, smoothed under my mother’s hand, gone now like my mother, deep in the snow, I remember what it was […]
Catholic Girlhood
I did not imagine my body, not at first— not the way I thought other girls did, with their catalogues of beautiful parts: their shapely calves and reddish hair, but dim, disappointing eyes; their full lips and long limbs, their concave breasts. I did not want breasts. I did not want hair, or legs, or […]