Dear Fear:
Letters of recovery to the foods we no longer fear.
Dear Fear is a collection of inspiring messages from those with experience in recovery from food obsession and eating disorders. In this anthology of poems, essays, and other creative nonfiction, writers use the container of letters to their fear foods to send hope, encourage sovereignty, and extend companionship to others who’ve been where they were.
Dear Fear is a collection of inspiring messages from those with experience in recovery from food obsession and eating disorders. In this anthology of poems, essays, and other creative nonfiction, writers use the container of letters to their fear foods to send hope, encourage sovereignty, and extend companionship to others who’ve been where they were.
Dear Fear Food, I don’t shiver in shame looking at you anymore…
Dear Fear Food, the pain and guilt I had over struggling to avoid you is gone…
Dear Fear Food, I don't avoid your grocery aisle anymore...
About the Editors
Danielle Coffyn is a poet, educator, and facilitator of spaces where writing becomes a bridge back to ourselves and each other. She is the author of If Adam Picked the Apple (North Meridian Review, 2024) and a Pushcart Prize recipient, with poems published in LitBop, North Meridian Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and more.
Danielle holds a BA in English and leads writing workshops and retreats. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her son and their sweet pup, and I’m currently working on her second poetry collection.
Roula Seikaly is an independent curator, writer, and Co-Director at Humble Arts Foundation. Her curatorial practice addresses contemporary photography and new media, social justice efforts in contemporary art, exhibition making, and institutional critique. Roula’s writing is published virtually and in print on platforms including Hyperallergic, photograph, BOMB Magazine, and KQED Arts.
She has curated exhibitions at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SF Camerawork, Blue Sky Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, and Photographic Center Northwest. In September 2023, Roula and photographer David Johnson co-founded Print Study for All, an educational initiative dedicated to serving photography students and educators in culturally underserved areas nationwide through traveling print boxes.
Maggie Russell is a writer and editor. Her work has been nominated for Best of the Net and a Pushcart Prize. Maggie’s work has been published most recently in Flash the Court, January House, and Defenestration. She received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Spring Short Competition by The Prose Poem.
Maggie, a former attorney and editor of legal and regulatory publications, is a poetry mentor for programs that teach writing in prisons. She is the Interviews and Reviews Editor for Broad Ripple Review and a reader for several literary magazines. Maggie is also a member of the National Book Critics Circle. Raised by the woods in Connecticut, she now lives in Nashville with her husband and pets.