Susan Straight
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Susan Straight (born 19 October 1960 in Riverside, California) is a writer and National Book Award finalist. She was formally the director of the creative writing department at University of California, Riverside, where she still teaches. She has also written essays and articles for The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation and Harper's Magazine.
Straight has three daughters that live with her in Riverside.
As a young woman growing up in Riverside, Straight received encouragement for her writing from a teacher at Riverside Community College. 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 at Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. Her first short story for Zoetrope, "Mines," was included in Best American Short Stories 2003. She has published five novels.
[edit] Novels
- I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots, 1993
- Aquaboogie: A Novel in Stories, 1994 (Milkweed National Fiction Prize)
- Blacker than a Thousand Midnights, 1995
- The Gettin' Place, 1997
- Highwire Moon, 2002 (finalist for the National Book Award)
- A Million Nightingales, Pantheon, 2006
