Susan Stinson
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Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities.
-Alice Sebold SPIDER IN A TREE
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WelcomeI am a novelist and poet whose work centers on the lives of characters who love rules yet cannot live within them. These stories are fueled by beauty that transgresses conventions of body size, sexuality and historical identity. My books are about ideology and disorder, continuity and disruption, bodies and souls.Current Work
Susan 's forthcoming novel, Spider in a Tree, is about Northampton, Massachusetts in the time of Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth century preacher and theologian best known for his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God." Leah and Saul, enslaved in the Edwards household, are central to the story. Susan lives across Bridge Street from the Northampton cemetery where Jonathan Edwards and many of his family have memorials and graves. Time spent in that beautiful, place inspired the book. Contact |
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