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January Gill O'Neil

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Norfolk, VA, The United States

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Poetry, Nonfiction, African American Stories

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December 2009

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January Gill O’Neil is a poet whose work explores the afterlives of history in American landscapes and intimate lives. Her poems trace how place, memory, and moral inheritance shape identity across generations, joining lyric precision with documentary attention and restraint.

She is the author of four poetry collections published by CavanKerry Press: Glitter Road (2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009). Glitter Road received the 2024 Poetry by the Sea Best Book Award and the Julia Ward Howe Prize and was a finalist for several honors, including the Massachusetts Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a- ...more

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My deep gratitude to LitHub for this Cover Reveal of my fourth book Glitter Road. Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Of course, the map has sentimental meaning. I moved from Massachusetts with my two teenagers for the academic year. While there, we immersed ourselves in the culture and landscape of the state. We took trips to the Delta; leaned into the history of the enslaved and the trag

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	Glitter Road 4.56 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rewilding 4.61 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underlife 4.36 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Misery Islands 4.42 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gloved Against Blood by January Gill O'Neil (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Cindy Veach (Goodreads Author) 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami by Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author), Mosab Abu Toha (Goodreads Author), Nathalie Handal 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Places We Return To: A Celebration of Twenty Years Publishing Fine Literature by CavanKerry Press, 2000-2020 by Joan Cusack Handler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kevin Carey (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), January Gill O'Neil (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stone Gathering: A Reader, Volume 2: Issue 2 by Deborah Jacobs (Series Editor), Ross Gay, Siri Liv Myhrom it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disobedient Futures: An Anthology by Rita Banerjee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Diana Norma Szokolyai (Editor), Corrine Previte (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
― C.G. Jung

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