I Am My Mother's Disappointments

I Am My Mother's Disappointments is a book of poetry drenched in truth. Tracing time from Hood's childhood with her mother to her teenage years losing her mother to suicide to her current adulthood as she continues to live without her mother, this book explores the way in which grief can expand and bend time. The loss of a parent bringing out the sadness and vacancy left behind, while exploring the memories that we wish we could forget. I Am My Mother's Disappointments confronts the complicated relationship between the sadness of losing a mother and the sadness of living with a mother.

Victoria holds an MA in English from the University of Maine. Originally from Pennsylvania, she now resides in Maine with her partners and elderly cat while teaching at her alma mater. She is the author of a collection of short stories My Haunted Home (FC2) and chapbooks Death and Darlings and Entries of Boredom and Fear (Bottlecap Press). Overall, she hopes to discomfort, humor and charm.