Regional interest in Northwestern PA, The Great Lakes Region, and Ohio. Sean Thomas Dougherty is also the author of The Second O of Sorrow (BOA), which was the winner of the 2019 Paterson Poetry Prize and the 2019 Housatonic Book Award for Poetry. The poem “Why Bother?” fromThe Second O of Sorrow has gone viral on Twitter and other platforms multiple times, with over 10,000 shares on Facebook, over 3,000 retweets, and 500,000 views at one point or another. Sean was the Erie County Poet Laureate of 2021-22. This book was largely written on the backs of medical forms while the author was working the night shift at the hospital as a medical technician. During this time his wife was sick, and this book grew out of those two realities.