Elizabeth Szewczyk is a recipient of the Connecticut Celebration of Excellence Award for writing and author of My Bags Were Always Packed: A Mother’s Journey Through Her Son’s Cancer Treatment And Remission. She is an English teacher at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, CT, and is a co-editor of the poetry journal, Freshwater.
Reviews
“Rich language and abundant imagery immediately set the tone for this unique collection filled with surprising insights. Once immersed, the reader is presented with honest recollections of both happiness and heartache as Elizabeth Szewczyk tackles themes of love and loss without sentimentality, self-pity, or vague generalizations.”
~ Alexis Czencz Belluzzi, Practicing Distance
“Elizabeth Szewczyk’s poems remind us how essential poetry is to our lives as a way to remember and celebrate this blessed and mysterious experience. It is fitting that a poem in This Becoming begins with the Mary Oliver quotation, 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' Throughout the poems, Elizabeth weaves her answers to this question like golden threads a reader can trace in the larger, unfolding tapestry of her book.”
~ Malaika King Albrech, Redheaded Stepchild Magazine
“In This Becoming, Elizabeth Szewczyk deftly combines poems of birth and mortality, exploring both "the intimate cavern" of her own body and the torture of cancer, abuse, and loss.”
~ Leah Browning, Apple Valley Review
Purchase This Becoming here Big Table Publishing.
