Memory in Lockdown

by Sandra Joy (Editor), Alexandra Lewis (Editor)

This anthology brings together twenty-two pieces of creative nonfiction - memoir, family history, personal essay, travel narrative - by Newcastle and Hunter writers, produced during COVID-19.

120 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2021

About the author

Sandra Joy, Ph.D., LCSW is an assistant professor of sociology at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. She received her Ph.D in sociology from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her M.S.W. from Norfolk State University in Norfolk, Virginia. Her primary research areas are race/ethnic relations, social movement theory, and the area of death, dying and bereavement. She has worked as a mental health/substance abuse therapist and community activist for many years and is currently examining the bereavement process confronting families of death row inmates.