Burning the Ghost Light

“Burning The Ghost Light is a lyrical production of grief, excavation, and longing, and Conlon’s poems radiate in the limelight with both a fearlessness and a gentle humility. I have truly never read a collection like it before; Conlon has brought a level of stunning evolution to not just her own writing but to the craft itself.” — Sierra DeMulder, author of Ephemera

“An innovative and unyielding powerhouse of a book. Conlon does what all the best poets do: she slows down each moment and lets the reader savor each ache and awe, life’s entrances and exits, to create an emotional landscape so vulnerable, so lived-in, it takes your breath away. This genre-bending collection expertly utilizes the urgency of playwriting, prose’s deep interiority, and poetry’s stark surrealness. Its lyrical language will leave you audibly gasping as you fly through its pages.” — Kelly Grace Thomas, author of Boat Burned

“With a gift for plucking improbable tendernesses from the mundane landscapes of memory, Conlon’s speakers haunt & hallow the stages they inhabit, in all their fragmentation & howling. This book dives fearlessly into the rippling undertow of the self—& on the brink of drowning, it breaks the surface of the water, re-emerges gasping & alive. — Topaz Winters, author of So, Stranger and Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing

Caitlin Conlon is a writer from upstate New York with a loyal audience across social media platforms, most notably on Instagram. Caitlin is the author of The Surrender Theory and has previously been published in Thought Catalog, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and Rust + Moth, among others. When she isn’t writing, she spends most of her free time working through her towering piles of unread books. She enjoys plants, astrology, the color yellow, crewneck sweaters, libraries, and the sound of violins.

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