Yelling at Dead People
A work-in-progress by Erica Richmond
Yelling at Dead People is a multimedia memoir-in-essays about complicated grief, motherhood, and life after the estranged father of my two children dies by suicide.
Through essays, letters, memories, conversations, and experiments with form, I explore the messy realities of grief that don't always fit the stories we're expected to tell. This is a book about raising children while carrying complicated feelings, finding language for what is difficult to say, and making room for the truths that don't fit neatly into a conventional story of loss.
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Selected Publications from Yelling at Dead People
Always Ash — published in HerStry, October 2026. Read the essay.
The Reverberation of Sound — published in Beyond Words Magazine, Issue 65, September 2026. Read the essay.
Escape Songs — shortlisted for The Ampersand Review Essay Contest 2025.
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.
