Postscript: An email from his sister corrected his birthdate, and we have made the correction above.

on Friday, March 24, in the chapel located in Mercy Hall of Misericordia University: 301 Lake Street, Dallas, PA 18612 Postscript on memorial: A service will be held at 11:00 a.m. To die - their wet wombs, their thick-salt graves. To my selves that have died and pray for those still I walk into the unwarm froth, say farewell We tilt toward winter, though the sand is spring I could wish for -this air, this sea, this night. With its sour chirping, keeps at it undeterredīy the browning season. His work appeared in Harvard Review, The Literary Review, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, A Public Space, Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, Subtropics, and elsewhere, as well as being included as a “notable essay” in Best American Essays 2015. His books included From the Crooked Timber (short fiction), The Cartographer’s Ink (poetry), The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (a novel), Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jürgen Becker (translation), and Pope Francis: The Essential Guide (nonfiction, forthcoming). Please feel free to share your memories, reflections, whatever in the comments section below. We wrote about him in the Book Haven here. He was kind, generous with his time, and indefatigable in his writing. Those of us who knew him – and his circle of acquaintance and friendship was very wide indeed – are in shock from this wholly unanticipated death. The Misicordia University professor, a prolific novelist, poet, short fiction writer, and translator, would have turned 40 this year. Okla Elliott passed away in his sleep last night.

R.I.P. Requiescat In Pace by Eilan Moon