Susanne’s linked short story collection, THE APPOINTED HOUR, was published by Cornerstone Press in December 2017 and is now in its second printing. Her short stories have been published in American Short Fiction, Notre Dame Review, descant, St. Petersburg Review, Zone 3, Carve and numerous other journals, while Harvard Magazine, Harvard Law Bulletin, Mothers Always Write, and others have published her nonfiction. Her fiction and nonfiction writing have won awards and recognition. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and conducts writing workshops privately. Before coming to Hope College as a visiting professor, Susanne was a visiting assistant professor of creative writing at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, from 2014–2018, and is an adjunct professor in the English department at the University of Connecticut.

Education

• M.F.A., creative writing/fiction, University of Iowa
• B.A. English, University of Connecticut