Rosemary Vaswani’s debut, When I Press Stop, was a semifinalist in the Donna Wolf Palacio Book Competition. A writer and performer since her teens, her work ranges from dry humor to poignant reflections on family and loss. She is also an actress in television, film, and theater under her stage name Rosemary Dominguez.
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Rosemary Vaswani captures the unimaginable pain of grief in carefully curated poems that not only detail the tragedy that happened to her husband, but how important a figure he was to anyone who knew him. The always fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is difficult to describe, but I felt my own experience of losing my dad to the disease reflected in her words. The swiftness, the confusion, the heartbreak—it’s all there and with stunning clarity. A must-read for anyone navigating loss and especially those affected by CJD.
–David Oliver, Deputy Wellness Editor USA Today
With tremendous heart, Vaswani’s poems offer a clear-eyed portrait of love and vigilance in the staggering days of inexplicable loss. For anyone whose world has been touched by neurodegenerative disease, When I Press Stop is a lighthouse—a beacon in the dark.
–Annie Connole, author of The Spring
It’s dinner party conversation, telling stories of the “first ever” experiences with a life partner. Many of us can pinpoint the feelings that came with the first date, first vacation, first home, first childbirth, on and on. Few can write with such poetic clarity, descriptive despondency, gallant grace, and ferocious honesty about having to accept that every day holds another “last ever” experience with a fatally ill spouse: last song, last car trip, last walk around the block, last message for a cherished child, last day to speak and to listen, last breath. Through Rosemary Vaswani’s memoir of the harshly inevitable and accelerated loss of a loving partnership that would have lasted a full lifetime, we are given the privilege of recognizing that every day is a small, mostly imperceptible, death for each of us and a new appreciation for being present in the life and love we are given.
–Marcia Wilkie, New York Times Best Selling Co-Author with Whoopi Goldberg, Naomi Judd and Marie Osmond
Congratulations to Finishing Line Press author Rosemary Vaswani on her recent appearance on Bringing Inspiration to Earth with Robert Sharpe! Rosemary discusses her forthcoming memoir-in-verse, When I Press Stop: A Memoir of Loss (Finishing Line Press, October 23, 2026), sharing the deeply personal story behind the book and offering an uplifting message of hope, healing, and moving forward after loss.
Watch the interview here: Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/memoir-of-loss-and-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease/id1877242743?i=1000781288692
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Spotify Podcasts:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jU14nC7FaRODNMoC1gV5a?si=HXkTqex2SXu1faoR6kARPw
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Author Rosemary Vaswani, whose debut memoir-in-verse, When I Press Stop: A Memoir of Loss (Finishing Line Press, October 23, 2026), is forthcoming this fall, was recently featured on the Bringing Inspiration to Earth with Robert Sharpe. In this heartfelt conversation, Rosemary shares her deeply personal journey through grief following the loss of her husband to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the inspiration behind her book, and how hope, healing, and resilience can help us move forward after profound loss.
Listen to the interview here: Commercial-free on my BITEradio.me website:
http://biteradio.me/2026shows/show_2026_08_07_Rosemary_Vaswani.mp3
Rosemary discusses her forthcoming memoir-in-verse, When I Press Stop: A Memoir of Loss (Finishing Line Press, October 23, 2026), sharing the deeply personal story behind the book and offering an uplifting message of hope, healing, and moving forward after loss. Watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/gQbyBQUjav0?si=beDCLLl7-fmK1emM
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