A 27-year sufferer of Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome, award-winning author Pegi Deitz Shea let her inner Robin Williams loose on ticks and came up with a World Tick Pageant, a craft blood bar called “Bites & Sips,” and more zany hybrid short works. If you’ve been “touched” by ticks, try laughing at them (after you take your meds).
"Only after drafting TiCK TiCK TiCK TiCK, did I finally feel ready to share my Lyme journey with others. I had been letting the “trip-tick” of pain / frustration / fear block my vision of creativity’s infinite landscape."
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UPROARIOUS! Each poem bites into us, compelling us to continue exuberantly through scientific information and delightful laughter. This book will get under your skin, stick there, and stay until you are able to pull yourself away. And I’m a 4-time Lyme sufferer whose wife nearly died of anaplasmosis. An absolute must read!!
John L. Stanizzi, Author of SEE and Entra La Notte
In Tick Tick Tick Tick, Pegi Deitz Shea uses humor as a strategy to link our sense of mortality to the understandable fear caused by the tiny time bomb a disease-bearing tick can be. Because laughter heals, even as it says, "Pay attention," these are healing poems.
Margaret Gibson, State of Connecticut Poet Laureate, 2019-2022
Author of Draw Me Without Boundaries
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Pegi Deitz Shea is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for young readers, and poetry and essays for adults. She is a two-time winner of the Connecticut Book Award and is current President of the CT Council of Poets Laureate. She has taught creative writing for the University of Connecticut, the Mark Twain House, and Institute for Writers. A mother, wife and dog lover, she spends her free healthy time swimming, gardening, and traveling. Learn more at www.pegideitzshea.com, and find her on Facebook and Instagram.