The Woman in the Sound, by Ellery Capshaw

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Set along the shores of the Long Island Sound, The Woman in the Sound is a chapbook about grief, girlhood, and the strange ways memory lingers. In these poems, Ellery Capshaw returns again and again to the beach, a place tied up in family rituals and personal hauntings. There, the speaker encounters a mysterious woman rising from the water, bearing messages from the past and pulling her toward long-buried truths.

The collection traces the aftermath of a father’s death, the ache of wanting answers, and the half-ordinary, half-unreal moments that shape how we carry loss. Grab a Diet Pepsi, listen to the egrets in the reeds, and get ready for conversations that blur dream and memory. Capshaw writes with clarity, imagination, and heart. This is a book for anyone who has stood by the water and waited for something to come back.

Ellery Capshaw is a poet, teacher, and fiction writer from Connecticut. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University and is the author of the forthcoming full-length collection Three Walled World (CLASH Books, 2026). Her work has appeared in Rising Phoenix Review, Kalliope Magazine, and Connecticut Bard’s Anthology, among others. The Woman in the Sound is her debut chapbook.