Deirdre Fagan

Deirdre Fagan is a widow, wife, and mother of two. She is the author of the memoir, Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (Pact Press, November 1, 2022), a short story collection, The Grief Eater (Adelaide Books, 2020), and a chapbook of poetry, Have Love (Finishing Line Press, 2019). She is also the author of the reference book, Critical Companion to Robert Frost (Facts on File, 2007) and has published critical essays on poetry, memoir, and pedagogy. Fagan holds a doctorate in Humanistic Studies (English and Philosophy) from University at Albany, SUNY, and has taught university courses in writing and literature for over two decades. She is a native New Yorker who has also lived in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, and Maryland, and currently resides in Michigan where she teaches and coordinates the Creative Writing program at Ferris State University. She continues to write poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, and is working on a poetry collection and a second memoir.