Author Deirdre Fagan
Deirdre Fagan is a poet, memoirist, fiction writer, and professor.
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Ten Things I Learned to Do—And Not Do—When Facing a Terminal Illness - Lake Oconee Health
Ten Things I Learned to Do—And Not Do—When Facing a Terminal Illness - Lake Oconee Health
NPR Station WGVU Interview with Shelley Irwin
NPR Station WGVU Interview with Shelley Irwin
Deirdre Fagan is our guest
Find a Place for Me on Late Night Health Radio with Mark Alyn
Find a Place for Me on Late Night Health Radio with Mark Alyn
Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death (Pact Press, November 1, 2022) is an award-winning memoir about facing a marriage’s last act—a spouse’s death—as a couple united in mind and holding hands. Author Deirdre Fagan, D.A., was married eleven years and had two young children when her forty-three-year-old husband …
HuffPost Article: "My Dying Husband Tried to Help Me Find Love Aagain"
HuffPost Article: "My Dying Husband Tried to Help Me Find Love Aagain"
"In the midst of our devastation and pain, it helped me to imagine a future and also helped Bob to imagine me and the kids thriving without him."
Kirkus Review of Find a Place for Me
Kirkus Review of Find a Place for Me
Pre-Order Find a Place for Me
Pre-Order Find a Place for Me
Visit My Website:Bio, Books, Press, Contact
Visit My Website:Bio, Books, Press, Contact
Newsweek: "My Dying Husband Helped Me Find Love with Someone New"
Newsweek: "My Dying Husband Helped Me Find Love with Someone New"
I don't know if I would have noticed my partner without the prompting from my late husband.
Prism International Review of Find a Place for Me: "We Chose to Pour Champagne" by Diane Gottlieb
Prism International Review of Find a Place for Me: "We Chose to Pour Champagne" by Diane Gottlieb
Find a Place for Me is a 2022 Living Now Awards Aging/Death & Dying Bronze Medal Winner!
Find a Place for Me is a 2022 Living Now Awards Aging/Death & Dying Bronze Medal Winner!
Here are the gold, silver and bronze medalists in our 14th annual Living Now Book Awards.
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Win Charles interviews Deirdre Fagan on being an author
Win Charles interviews Deirdre Fagan on being an author
The Daily Mail: "'You deserve love in your life': Woman shares bittersweet story of how her terminally ill husband helped her find the second love of her life before dying of ALS"
The Daily Mail: "'You deserve love in your life': Woman shares bittersweet story of how her terminally ill husband helped her find the second love of her life before dying of ALS"
Author Deirdre Fagan, 52, opened up about how her late husband Bob helped her see her colleague Dave in a new light before he died.
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"Heavy Lifting: On Caregiving, Sexuality, and ALS"--Excerpt from Find a Place for Me
"Heavy Lifting: On Caregiving, Sexuality, and ALS"--Excerpt from Find a Place for Me
Pushcart & Best of the Net Nomination 2021, "Stepping Up," summer 2021, Rat's Ass Review--Poem
Pushcart & Best of the Net Nomination 2021, "Stepping Up," summer 2021, Rat's Ass Review--Poem
Cover Art — Janice Appel Trickle Down Economics Kemmer Anderson BIG OTIS At a halfway house near Salem, Virginia, Big Otis, the VA Counselor, looked through our fried brains still playing movies on mind screen. Soundtracks whispered through jungle trees where Joe Brown had lived […]
The Grief Eater Winner (Cover) and Finalist (Short Story Collection) in Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge Review
The Grief Eater Winner (Cover) and Finalist (Short Story Collection) in Next Generation Indie Book Awards Judge Review
"Ashes, Ashes"--Creative Nonfiction Essay
"Ashes, Ashes"--Creative Nonfiction Essay
"Ordinary Sounds," Eunoia Review--Poem
"Ordinary Sounds," Eunoia Review--Poem
Are the ones I wish to keep. Our daughter brushing her teeth before bed. Your melodic whistling. The way our son used to pop not his fingers but his jaw before he grew fully into it. It was like na…
Poets & Writers Bio and Publications
Poets & Writers Bio and Publications
Deirdre Fagan is an award-winning multi-genre author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism. Recently featured on NPR, ABC, and CBS television and radio,
"Between Us," Red Eft Review--Poem
"Between Us," Red Eft Review--Poem
"Dressing the Part"--Short Story (included in The Grief Eater)
"Dressing the Part"--Short Story (included in The Grief Eater)
"An American Christmas Story, 1991," Emerge--Flash Nonfiction
"An American Christmas Story, 1991," Emerge--Flash Nonfiction
"Love at Assisted Living," MORIA--Poem
"Love at Assisted Living," MORIA--Poem
"Gardening is an Honor System" included in Nothing Divine Dies Poetry Anthology---Poem
"River among the Gravel," Anti-Heroin Chic--Poem
"River among the Gravel," Anti-Heroin Chic--Poem
"Anointing the Dead," Thimble--Poem
"Anointing the Dead," Thimble--Poem
"Cassandra in a Supermarket," poem, Hags on Fire, Summer 2022
"Cassandra in a Supermarket," poem, Hags on Fire, Summer 2022
"it must be strange to be a house," Trouvaille Review--Poem
"it must be strange to be a house," Trouvaille Review--Poem
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