Editorial Critical Explorations of Marginalized Grief Wulf Livingston 1 and Neil Thompson 2 Like many special editions, this has been long in gestation. This began in the autumn of 2016. Following some initial collaborative writing on two articles for this journal exploring relationships between crisis, illness, loss, and well-being, and then more specifically considerations for the Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief and Bereavement (Thompson & Cox, 2017), we formulated the idea for a collection of focused inquiries into disenfranchised grief. Our initial starting point was the desire to extend opportunity and writing about some of the important, but marginalized, realms of these topics. To this end, we commissioned a range of authors to make potential contri- butions. Our first focus was explicitly disenfranchised grief and the ideas devel- oped from the work of Doka (Thompson & Doka, 2017). In this regard, we were keen to develop understanding of the diversity of difficult experiences which, by their inherent nature, are particularly hidden from social acknowledgment. We had after this two very distinct additional aims. The second was to try to provide an opportunity to support new authors (early career researchers or practice community individuals) to get published. The third was to invite a diversity of approaches, methods, topics, and client considerations to be included. We were fortunate to have four contributions which all encompassed these three aspirations. This edition offers four different, but applied, explorations of disenfranchised grief. Each paper is led by at least one author with limited or no previous publication history, who are then supported by more established academics. 1 Glyndwr University, Wales, UK 2 Avenue Consulting Limited, Wales, UK Corresponding Author: Wulf Livingston, Glyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrexham, Wales LL11 2AW, UK. Email: w.livingston@glyndwr.ac.uk Illness, Crisis & Loss 2019, Vol. 27(1) 3–5 ! The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1054137318780569 journals.sagepub.com/home/icl