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Susan Straight
American writer (born 1960) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960) is an American writer. She was a National Book Award finalist for the novel Highwire Moon in 2001.
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Biography
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Susan Straight attended John W. North High School in Riverside, California and took classes at Riverside Community College while in high school. She went on to earn a scholarship to the University of Southern California and, in 1984, earned her M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. She co-founded the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts program at University of California, Riverside, where she is currently a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and the director of the graduate program.
Straight has published eight novels, a novel for young readers and a children's book. She has also written essays and articles for numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation and Harper's Magazine, and is a frequent contributor to NPR and Salon. Her story "Mines", first published in Zoetrope: All-Story, was included in The Best American Short Stories 2003.
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Personal life
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Straight lives in Riverside, California. She has three daughters.
Awards and honors
Bibliography
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Novels
- —— (1991). Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions. ISBN 9780915943593.
- —— (1993). I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots.
- —— (1995). Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights.
- —— (1997). The Gettin' Place.
- —— (2001). Highwire Moon.
- —— (2006). A Million Nightingales.
- —— (2010). Take One Candle Light a Room.
- —— (2012). Between Heaven and Here.
- —— (2022). Mecca.[6]
Short fiction
For younger readers
- Bear E. Bear (1995)
- The Friskative Dog (2007)
Nonfiction
- In the Country of Women (2019)
Essays, reporting and other contributions
- Race: An Anthology in the First Person (essay, "Letter to My Daughters") (1997)
- Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-Life Parenthood (essay, "One Drip at a Time") (1999)
- When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories (essay, "Country Music") (2002)
- Life As We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com (essay, "Love Me, Love My Guns") (2003)
- Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship (essay, "Brave and Noble Is the Preschool Dog") (2003)
- Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendships (essay, "Cartilage") (2004)
- Little Women (afterword) (2004)
- Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves (essay, "The Belly Unbuttoned") (2005)
- I Married My Mother-in-law And Other Tales of In-laws We Can't Live With - And Can't Live Without (essay, "A Family You Can't Divorce") (2006)
- Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire (introduction) (2006)
- Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (essay, "Reckless") (July 2007)
- The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience (essay, "The Funk Festival at Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, May 26, 1979") (2007)
- Straight, Susan (Mar–Apr 2013). "November 24, 1963 : what my brother left behind". The Believer. 11 (3): 25–28. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
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