Dr. Kelly Sundberg, author of ‘Goodbye, Sweet Girl’
Dr. Kelly Sundberg, Ohio University alum and Visiting Assistant Professor of English, was profiled in an Idaho Post Register article headlined “Former Salmon woman’s memoir about surviving domestic abuse receives critical acclaim.”
Sundberg, who earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences in 2018.
Kelly Sundberg has suffered the trauma of physical abuse and endured perils of psychological abuse and has emerged to tell the tale of how she extricated herself from a harmful marriage and from the even more harmful stereotypes of the perfect wife and ideal woman.
That story is spelled out in “Goodbye, Sweet Girl,” a book published by HarperCollins and which has been received with critical acclaim since it came out in June, just weeks after the Salmon native finished her Ph.D. in creative nonfiction at Ohio University.
The swift pace of Sundberg’s accomplishments reflects an iron-willed drive to overcome obstacles and a work ethic that stems from her parents and her Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod upbringing.
And it reflects more than that. In the aftermath of a marriage to a fellow academic that brought beatings and heartache but which also produced a boy adored by his mother, Sundberg is an author who has no time to waste and many words to commit to paper.
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