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Deirdre Sugiuchi

@djsugi.bsky.social

Author of UNREFORMED (Vine Leaves Press, 2027), contributing writer at Electric Literature, '23 Barbara Deming memorial grant for feminist nonfiction, lapsed librarian, essays in Literary Hub, Action Spectacle, & more, Pilates instructor, she/hers

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I loved this quote from @kiese.bsky.social

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Hands off our future! #handsoff

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Celebrated my birthday by signing my contract with @vineleavespress.bsky.social 🥳🥳 UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE will be published in February of 2027. Sign up for updates at djsugi.substack.com

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Starlings in Athens, Georgia at sunset

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Right??? I wrote about that here— djsugi.substack.com/p/its-the-en...

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I had fun writing this— djsugi.substack.com/p/its-the-en...

I didn't have time to celebrate my win because I was thinking about the text calling out the bishop who dared ask for mercy. About the pardons issued for even the most violent of the January 6ers. About how the man who promised to lower the price of eggs, locked his followers out in the literal cold, so he could be sworn in in a room full of billionaires.

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Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

So this week was a dumpster 🔥🔥🔥BUT in related news, my white evangelical captivity narrative, UNREFORMED, was a finalist in a contest @vineleavespress.bsky.social

Picture of Deirdre Sugiuchi, author of UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE

in Creative Nonfiction Competition
Unreformed: A Captivity Narrative
by Deirdre Sugiuchi
Unreformed is a captivity narrative that recounts how Deirdre Sugiuchi endured her adolescence in a White evangelical reform school in the Dominican Republic. Despite the oppressive environment, she survived and thrived, channeling her resilience into a mission as an adult: to speak out against the systemic abuse within America's troubled teen industry.
Sugiuchi's powerful story sheds light on a dark reality, advocating for justice and the protection of vulnerable children.

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