Katherine Sullivan ’84 (cont.)

REPORTER: Was there a course or professor at Trinity that helped shape your career path?
SULLIVAN: Of the many wonderful professors I had, Dr. Drew Hyland was the most memorable and most important to what I studied while at Trinity and what I went on to do after. I changed my major from psychology to philosophy after taking his Introduction to Philosophy course—and doing very poorly. The grade didn’t matter to me. I had been shown books and ideas that blew my mind. I was hooked.

REPORTER: At Trinity you were a philosophy major. How did you become interested in publishing?
SULLIVAN: The ideas I came across in the work of Plato and Nietzsche, in Kierkegaard and Sartre have been a part of me since I first came across them in my philosophy classes at Trinity. There are so many words I remember and that feed me still and that have allowed and encouraged me to go after what excites me.

For instance, Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche offers this:

“I tell you: one must still have chaos within oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.”

For now— poetry is the chaos, publishing is the star.

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