I want the very act of creation to haul me so far outside my comfort zone I’m left gasping at the sheer audacity of it all. I want the writing of novels & creation of poems to be alchemic, metamorphic processes wherein I could not possibly remain the same person who began such wild & reckless tasks.


“Sophie McKeand joined us on stage at The Good Life Experience … where she captivated the audience with her profound, mythological, musical poems that not only crossed borders but seemed to dismantle them entirely, collapsing time and space and merging visions of the past with narratives of the personal.”

Caught By The River