Deborah Derrickson Kossmann on Creating Her Memoir “Lost Found Kept”

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann on Creating Her Memoir “Lost Found Kept”

Deborah Derrickson Kossmann and I met as resident fellows at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts several years ago. Kossman, poet and essayist of note, was working on the manuscript which would later become an award-winning memoir about her mother’s mental illness and extreme, secret hoarding: Lost Found Kept. My then novel-in-progress was inspired by renowned psychiatrist Frieda Fromm Reichmann (Frieda’s Song, Apprentice House Press, Loyo…