Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss

Melissa M. Monroe was awarded Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest 2023 Self-Published Book Awards for her book, Mom’s Search for Meaning: Grief and Growth After Child Loss (2023). She is a mom, freelance writer, acupuncturist, and host of the podcast This Club Suuucks: Grief Support for Parents After the Lasagnas Are Long Gone. Her recent work has appeared in Insider and Well+Good.

Melissa M. Monroe

Subversion of Resolution: On Eileen Vorbach Collins’s “Love in the Archives”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Melissa M. Monroe was awarded Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest 2023 Self-Published Book Awards for her book, Mom’s Search for Meaning: Grief and Growth After Child Loss (2023). She is a mom, freelance writer, acupuncturist, and host of the podcast This Club Suuucks: Grief Support for Parents After the Lasagnas Are Long Gone. Her recent work has appeared in Insider and Well+Good.

Melissa M. Monroe

Articles

Subversion of Resolution: On Eileen Vorbach Collins’s “Love in the Archives”