Anya Krugovoy Silver, whose searing poems about family, faith, and cancer appeared in the Christian Century, among other publications, died August 6 in Macon, Georgia. She was 49.
A 2018 Guggenheim Fellow for Poetry, she taught English literature at Mercer University. Among the four books of poetry she published are The Ninety-Third Name of God (2010) and Second Bloom (2017).
Her poems related to cancer and its treatment—the way it ravages a body, the relief that a Popsicle can bring—are intertwined with deep, honest questioning of God.
