My Mother Has Had It with the Tragedies

Felicity Sheehy’s poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal , Narrative , The New Republic , The Yale Review , and elsewhere. A finalist in Narrative ’s 30 Below Contest, she has received an Academy of American Poets Prize, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the 2019 Jane Martin Poetry Prize for UK residents under 30. She holds a BA from Yale University and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where she is a PhD candidate. Photo by Jemima Wilcox