The Broken

by Devin Johnston

After a failed suicide attempt, Mie Faulkner is committed in a mental hospital where she befriends several other patients. With support from her new friends and psychiatrist, Mie truly begins to explore her illnesses and finally finds the motivation to confront them.

194 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 9, 2014

About the author

Born in Canton, New York, Devin Johnston grew up in Winston-Salem and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Far-Fetched (2015), Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Aversions (2004), and Telepathy (2001). His prose writing includes the critical study Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and Other Essays (2009). A former poetry editor for the Chicago Review from 1995-2000, Johnston co-founded and co-edits Flood Editions with Michael O’Leary.

He lives in St. Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University.