Feeding Ghosts

"Colleen Shoshana McKee's Feeding Ghosts isn't just a window into the life of an artist-addiction, mental illness, poverty, disability-it's also a testament to the power of story, and even the tricky predicament we face when writing about real people. This book continues "the hard work of waking," and the dream of remembering. Its ghosts will grip you."

-- Matthew Freeman, author of Dopamine and the Devil (Coffeetown Press 2025).

Colleen Shoshana McKee is the author of six collections of poetry, memoir, and fiction: My Hot Little Tomato (part of the Cherry Pie Press' Midwestern Women Poets Series); Are We Feeling Better Yet? Women Speak About Health Care in America (PenUltimate Press); A Partial List of Things I Have Done for Money (JKP); Nine Kinds of Wrong (JKP); The Kingdom of Roly Polys (Pedestrian Press); and Routine Bloodwork, a finalist for the Charlotte Mew Award (Headmistress Press). Colleen Shoshana teaches English as a Second Language to refugees in San Francisco. She also works as an editor and teaches creative writing to private students.