Yelling at Dead People

A work-in-progress by Erica Richmond

This is the book I didn’t know I needed to write—until I had no choice but to write it.

Yelling at Dead People is a multi-media memoir-in-essays about a mother’s journey through complicated grief when the estranged father of her two children dies by suicide. I know I’m not the only person whose former partner, with whom they had a tumultuous relationship, killed themself and my memoir is an important addition to books about grief that don’t address the struggles for those of us who are expected to carry on in silence, raise our children as single parents, while hiding our true feelings. 

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Parenting After Suicide

A collection of 4 short essays published by G.A.S.P (Give a Sheet Press). Each essay, an insight into parenting two small children after the suicide of their father. Cover illustration by Jordan.

News!


My essay, Escape Songs (from Yelling at Dead People), was shortlisted for The Ampersand Review Essay Contest 2025!

My essay, The Reverberation of Sound (from Yelling at Dead People), will be published with Beyond Words in May 2026.