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"What can loving someone, losing them, and continuing without them teach us about living?"
~ Dana Kurmasheva
About the Anthology
This Is How I Remember You: Personal Stories of Love After Suicide Loss is a collective anthology bringing together personal stories from people who have lost someone they love to suicide.
At the heart of this book is a simple belief: a person's final day should never become their whole story.
Through memories, lived experiences, and honest reflections, contributors will remember the people they loved beyond the way they died—who they were, what they meant to us, and the lives they lived. The anthology will also explore what came after: how loss changed those left behind, what helped us continue, what we understand differently now, and what we still carry.
These stories come from different relationships, cultures, ages, and life experiences, but together they speak to something deeply human—love, grief, memory, and learning to continue living while carrying someone with us.
Publication date to be announced.
"We cannot choose how the people we love leave this world, but we can choose how we remember them."
~ Dana Kurmasheva
Contributors
Dana Kurmasheva is a Canadian author, poet, storyteller, and the creator and editor of This Is How I Remember You. Her writing explores love, loss, resilience, self-discovery, and the courage to begin again.
Dana's contribution to this anthology is deeply personal. She writes in memory of her brother, Arman, whom she lost to suicide in 2019. Through this project, she hopes to create a space where people are remembered for the lives they lived and where those left behind can share honestly what loving, losing, remembering, and continuing have taught them about living.
Dana is also the author of FIVE A.M. The Silence After Goodbye and To the Woman in the Mirror.
Kelly-Jo Glendinning is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother who lives in Drayton Valley, Alberta. She worked with the RCMP as a civilian member for 16 years. She enjoys gardening, camping, yoga, reading, journaling, and personal growth.
Kelly connected with Dana through their shared experience of loss and joined This Is How I Remember You to share the story of her friend Trevor Hawkins, a man she greatly admired. Through her contribution, Kelly honours his memory and the place he continues to hold in her life.
Paula Sanghera