Join Deep Vellum for a reading and conversation with Emily Hyland on the occasion of her new book, My Wise Little Ghost (Trio House Press).

Hyland will be joined by Samantha Strong Murphey, author of the forthcoming BAD PROPHET (Trio House Press, 2027).

In My Wise Little Ghost, Hyland's latent grief over her abortion from many years ago is activated by her sister's pregnancy. Week by week, as she learns all about how her niece develops in utero, Hyland uncovers the texture of buried, complicated feelings from the impossible timing and circumstance of the end of her marriage that led to the choice she made. As she tracks memory and experience on deep psychedelic therapy journeys, the unexpected arises: "who-would've-been-Daisy" finds voice and narrates the story from somewhere off in the cosmos, in conversation with Hyland, as each speaker works through what happened and touches into who they are-and aren't-as a result of Hyland's abortion.

Emily Hyland's newest poetry collection, My Wise Little Ghost, was published with Trio House Press in July 2026; she is also the author of Divorced Business Partners: A Love Story (2024) and Emily: The Cookbook (2018), with a third collection, BREASTS, forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2027. Hyland is the eponymous co-founder of the international restaurant groups Pizza Loves Emily + Emmy Squared Pizza. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she writes & teaches at Yogasource, a beloved local studio that she co-owns & directs.
emilyhyland.com / emmysquaredpizza.com / pizzalovesemily.com

Photo by Justin Hackworth.

Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) is the author of full-length collection BAD PROPHET forthcoming from Trio House Press in 2027. Sam has an MFA in poetry from NYU and has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. She teaches writing at UT-Dallas. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, Rattle, North American Review, The Rumpus and elsewhere.