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Susan Stinson

Susan Stinson

American writer

Susan Stinson is an American writer. She has published four novels and a collection of poetry.

Born in Texas and raised in Colorado, she currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she is writer in residence at the Forbes Library.[1] She is an out lesbian.[2]

Awards

Stinson was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize in 2011.[3] Her novel Venus of Chalk was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and was named one of the ten best books of the year by Publishing Triangle, and she is a past winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.

Works

  • Belly Songs (1993)
  • Fat Girl Dances with Rocks (1994, ISBN 9781883523022 )
  • Martha Moody (1995, ISBN 978-1-883523-07-7)
  • Venus of Chalk (2004, ISBN 978-1563411373)
  • Spider in a Tree (2013, ISBN 9781618730695)

References

  1. [1]
    "Susan Stinson of Northampton proud to be writer in residence at Forbes Library". MassLive.com, June 19, 2012.
  2. [2]
    "LGBT writer finds freedom as novelist". MassLive.com, May 3, 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Alex Sanchez and Susan Stinson Awarded Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize". Lambda Literary Foundation, April 21, 2011.


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