Penn State English Professor Shara McCallum, best known for her poetry, has has also written personal essays and essays on poets and poetics for the past twenty years. Her forthcoming collection of personal essays in progress–Through a Glass, Darkly–explores race, migration, memory, and loss.

The collection’s titular essay appeared in the Autumn 2020 edition The Southern Review and received the journal’s Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for Nonfiction, awarded to an “exceptional essay published in the previous calendar year.”

You can read “Through a Glass, Darkly” in The Southern Review, Autumn 2020. A conversation about the essay was featured in A Writer’s Insight.

To read more about Shara McCallum and her work, visit her author website.