Sheri Reda lives in Chicago, where she works as a celebrant, public speaker, and youth librarian. Her poems have appeared in Examined Life Journal and Eocene Journal of Environmental Humanities, and have been anthologized in The Healer’s Burden (2020), The Nature of Our Times (2024) and the award-winning Dear Human at the Edge of Time. Her Memoir, Life is Like That (La Vita É Cosi) was longlisted for the 2026 International Creative Voices Award. Sheri is the author of Stubborn (Locofo Chaps/Moria Press, 2017). #sheri.a.reda
PRAISE:
This is not a diaspora you’ve read before; it’s poetry as sorcery. In this stunning volume, Sheri Reda creates an extraordinary vortex of myth and history in which memories form, imprint, and replicate like DNA. Even as she transports us from the choked city of childhood to an ancestral past on a Calabrian hillside, she maps a sense of longing and belonging that will take your breath away.
–Lucia Cordell Getsi, author of Intensive Care, Editor Emerita, Spoon River Poetry Review
Sheri Reda’s poems are master classes in paying attention to the world—past and present, real and imagined—and the language that shapes how the reader pays attention. They bring to life whole worlds of people, and experience, resulting in profound and enriching insights and revelations. To put it plain: these are profound and tender poems.
–Hayan Charara, author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit (Milkweed 2022)
Sheri Reda’s poems smell of chicken soup, dough, scotch and water, smokes. They crack jokes and find their way through a “city [of] bones and marrow,” setting off alarms, giving it their all, and most definitely breathing.
–Luisa A. Igloria, author of Caulbearer (Black Lawrence Press, 2024)
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