Description: The first book-length collaboration between Elisabeth Sharp McKetta and Troy Passey, Fear of the Deep joins the atmospheric artwork of Passey with thirty poetic fragments by McKetta, resulting in a book on the theme of the ocean and how words become lifeboats. Fear of the Deep is a call to live with courage and beauty in the face of mortality.
Brief description: Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is author of three books, The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell (2013), The Creative Year: 52 Workshops for Writers (2014), and Poetry for Strangers (2015). A fourth book, Energy: The Life of John J. McKetta, is forthcoming from University of Texas Press. She is at work on a new book entitled She Never Told Me About the Ocean, from which these fragments originate. Her work links fairy tales and autobiography. elisabethsharpmcketta.com