42 min
Giving Angie a Place in the World with Ona Gritz Coffee, Grief, And Gratitude
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- Mental Health
Ona shares about her sister Angie who was murdered decades ago and family secrets that kept the murder and Ona’s grief buried. In her soon to be released memoir, Everywhere I Look (Apprentice House Press; April 16, 2024), Ona Gritz unravels the mystery and tragedy of her sister, Andrea Susan Gritz, also known as Angie Boggs, while sharing her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth.
Ona Gritz holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Her earlier books include On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability and Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won the Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2020 Competition and has received many other honors for her poems, which have been widely anthologized. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia.
You can find Everywhere I Look and more here: https://www.onagritz.com/
Thank you for letting us be in your ears.
Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.
You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page:
Coffee and Grief Community.
You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com
Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September.
You can buy it wherever you get your books.
Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.
We’d love you to like and share the podcast!
Ona shares about her sister Angie who was murdered decades ago and family secrets that kept the murder and Ona’s grief buried. In her soon to be released memoir, Everywhere I Look (Apprentice House Press; April 16, 2024), Ona Gritz unravels the mystery and tragedy of her sister, Andrea Susan Gritz, also known as Angie Boggs, while sharing her own awakening to loss, grief, guilt, and the truth.
Ona Gritz holds a Master of Arts in poetry from the creative writing program at New York University. She is the author, most recently, of August Or Forever, a Reader’s Choice and Wishing Shelf finalist in middle grade fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in Brevity, The Guardian, The New York Times, River Teeth, The Rumpus, The Utne Reader, and been named Notable in The Best American Essays and Best of the Year in Salon. Her earlier books include On the Whole: A Story of Mothering and Disability and Geode, a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. She won the Poetry Archive Now Worldview 2020 Competition and has received many other honors for her poems, which have been widely anthologized. Ona lives with her husband, writer Daniel Simpson, near Philadelphia.
You can find Everywhere I Look and more here: https://www.onagritz.com/
Thank you for letting us be in your ears.
Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.
You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page:
Coffee and Grief Community.
You can also email Anne and Maria at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com
Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, came out in September.
You can buy it wherever you get your books.
Please review THE FIFTH CHAMBER on Amazon and Goodreads. No matter where you bought your copy, you can review it on those sites. We so appreciate you taking the time to review Anne’s memoir.
We’d love you to like and share the podcast!
42 min