Sally Read

Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk0^[1] is a British poet and writer and former psychiatric nurse.^[2]

Sally Read attended Tavistock Comprehensive School. She received a BA from Open University and then an MA from the University of South Dakota.^[3]

Read shared the Eric Gregory Award in 2001.^[4] Her first collection, The Point of Splitting, was shortlisted for the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection prize. A selection of her works, Punto di Rottura, is also available in Italian.^[5] Her poems have been anthologized in numerous volumes, including "Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade^[6] and Forward's Poems of the Decade.^[7] Read's first collection of poetry since her conversion, Dawn of this Hunger took first place for poetry at the Catholic Media Association Awards in 2022.^[8] She has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, The Catholic Herald, The Tablet, The Humanum Review and Magnificat among other periodicals and papers. Read has also published two memoirs: Night's Bright Darkness (2016) (see below) and The Mary Pages (2024), which was awarded best biography in the 2025 Association of Catholic Publishers awards.^[9] Read's book Annunciation was the subject of a short film ^[10] for EWTNGB by Norman Servais and Kevin Turley. She is editor of Word on Fire's 100 Great Catholic Poems (Nov 2023)

A lifelong atheist, Read converted to Catholicism in 2010.^[11][12] She wrote a book about her conversion experience, Night's Bright Darkness.^[13]

Read was poet in residence from 2011-2021 at The Hermitage of the Three Holy Hierarchs, which is an eparchial-rite form of consecrated life under the jurisdiction of Bishop Bryan Bayda, the Eparch of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon.^[14] Fr. Gregory Hrynkiw, of the group, played a role in her conversion. Read's role in the hermitage continues, as a member.

リードは夫と娘（セリア・フローレンス、彼女の著書「受胎告知：壊れた世界における信仰への呼びかけ」は彼女に捧げられている）と共にサンタ・マリネッラに住んでいる。^{[ 14 ]}

• 分裂のポイント（ブラッドアックス・ブックス、2005年）
• ブロークン・スリープ（ブラッドアックス・ブックス、2009年）
• デイ・ホスピタル（ブラッドアックス・ブックス、2012年）
• 夜の輝く闇：現代の回心物語（イグナティウス・プレス、2016年）（ポーランド語、スロベニア語、スロバキア語、チェコ語に翻訳）
• 受胎告知：壊れた世界における信仰への呼びかけ（イグナティウス・プレス、2019年）
• 『この飢餓の夜明け』（アンジェリコ・プレス、セカンド・スプリング、2021年）
• 『カトリックの偉大な詩100選』（Word on Fire、2023年11月刊）、編集・解説：リード
• メアリー・ページズ（ワード・オン・ファイア、2024年）

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