ABOUT
Virginia DeLuca is a writer, psychotherapist, and grandmother who lives in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of the memoir If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets (Apprentice House Press, April 2025), which explores the aftermath of a late-life divorce after fourteen years of marriage and the unexpected ways life can expand after loss.
Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, HuffPost Personal, Business Insider, The Iowa Review, and The Writer. She is also the co-author of Couples With Children (1980) and the author of the novel As If Women Mattered.
Virginia has been a practicing psychotherapist for decades, working in a small private practice in Boston. Her writing draws on her clinical experience, her Sicilian-American family heritage, and her life as a mother of three sons and grandmother to multiple grandchildren. She writes about aging, mortality, family, divorce, kinkeeping, and the unmapped territory of later life.
She is a member of a women’s group that has met for more than forty years, a morning pages practitioner, and a regular at the GrubStreet Boston writing community. Her work has been praised by New York Times bestselling author Abigail Thomas.
If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets will appeal to readers who loved Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb — as well as readers drawn to the women’s friendship writing of Gail Caldwell, the psychological honesty of Judith Herman, and the Italian-American family memoir tradition of Mary Gordon.