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Suzanne Scanlon
Mistake House Magazine: Your first novel, Promising Young Women (2012), was published by Dorothy, a publishing project. You’ve described the process of working with Danielle Dutton, the co-founder of Dorothy, as “one of the most important experiences of [your] life.” How did you get involved with this feminist press, and what made the editorial experience …
Suzanne Scanlon
OTHER PEOPLE’S STORIES That was when I noticed I had become a character in other people’s stories. First, B sent me a story she had written: a nonfictiony fiction, she described it, about the friendship of two women. I am the friend in this scenario, the woman described as “a decade older” than the narrator. …
Suzanne Scanlon
A note on my creative process Reading and writing has always been a way to get closer to life, my own and others. For as long as I can remember, I have desired this ability to reshape and reclaim a story. I write about time and I write to resist time. Joseph Brodsky said that …
Suzanne Scanlon
Suzanne Scanlon is an American writer of fiction and memoir. She was born and raised in Aurora, Illinois in 1971. Her father, a doctor, and her mother, a nurse, were born and raised Irish Catholic in Chicago. She attended Barnard College where she studied theater and literature. For many years, she worked as an actress, …