Susan Meehan’s second book published by Day Eight, Goddesses Incognito takes the reader back into Meehan’s neighborhood, home, and church. The text explores Meehan's activism from a feminist perspective, including her experiences a mother, wife, and Quaker community leader.
“Goddesses Incognito is a wise delight.” -John Lingan
“Meehan knows where the mythic, the deeper significance of human experience, hides under the familiar, the familial.” - Anne Becker
Susan Meehan grew up on Long Island’s North Shore during World War II. After graduating from Wellesley College she completed graduate school in Politics at Boston University. Susan moved to DC shortly after President Kennedy was assassinated, and spent the subsequent thirty years working in the DC city government -- as Marion Barry's constituent services director for Ward 2 and subsequently as DC’s first citywide Patient Advocate for persons in drug or alcohol treatment. Susan also served 12 years as an elected-at-large member of the DC Democratic State Committee, and 12 years as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in the Dupont Circle neighborhood. She represents a Quaker point of view on the DC Council of Churches, and is its Vice President.
Goddesses Incognito was published within a project supporting the practice of poetry by senior citizens funded through grants from the ride-sharing company Lyft and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and directed by Robert Bettmann
Cover art for the book is (c) Jim Dougherty.