Selected Works

Novels
Coming Fall 2013 from Small Beer Press! "Like Jonathan Edwards, Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." -Alison Bechdel
Single minded, indomitable Carline is on a fast bus to Texas. This is one ride you won't want to miss." -Alison Smith
I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous intersection of body and soul.-Elizabeth McCracken
Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met.-Judith Katz
Anthology
Letter to my young, queer self. As seen on The View.
Novel Excerpts
Link: Frequencies: a collaborative geneology of spirituality
Novel Excerpts
Link: Lavender Review
Podcasts
Interview and reading from SPIDER IN A TREE, The Writers Voice Syndicated Radio Show
Link: Reflections on Anti-Gay Methodist Decision, WFCR, New England Public Radio

Links

Blog
Writer in Residence, Forbes Library, Northampton, MA
Interview: How to Fall
Plum Magazine
At The Table Essay/​Poem
Public Humanist
Boston Public Library Op Ed
Daily Hampshire Gazette
Being In The Letter Q
Lambda Literary
Fiction and Misdirection
The Public Humanist
Writing Life video
Susan talks with Paradise City Press about sustaining beautiful ambitions, having a structure, taboo topics and writing with others.
The Writing Room
The Common
Adrienne Rich: Send Something Back essay
Lambda Literary Review
Other Side of the Paper: Jonathan Edwards as Slave-Owner
The Public Humanist
Bundling, excerpt from Spider in a Tree
Necessary Fiction
Theology and insects: researching a novel
Necessary Fiction
Lambda Literary
Lynne Gerber, Interview
Lambda Literary
Interview with Paul Lisicky
Lambda Literary
Interview with Sally Bellerose
Review of More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
"Lesbian Writers on Forbidden Territory:" writing about Jonathan Edwards
Essay for WomenArts about why I persist in being an artist when the rewards are slow to come.
Radio interview and reading, The Writer's Voice, WMUA and syndicated.
Interview with Susan Stinson by Francesca Rhiannon starts at 42:41, after some great Roethke poems. Most of the show is an interview with novelist Nicholson Baker. Reading from Spider In A Tree.
Review of American Romances by Rebecca Brown
Webcast of Millay Colony reading at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY. WGXC
Not listed in the credits, but Susan Stinson is up first, reading from Spider in a Tree after a brief intro.
"Met Roof Garden," poem
"The Two Sams," review
Publishing Triangle: Top Ten Lesbian Books
Interview with Susan Stinson, Sharon Bridgforth and Lenore Chinn in the Women Arts Newsletter
Find Authors
Alison Bechdel
Sally Bellerose
Edward Carey
Alexander Chee
Charlotte Cooper
Mark Doty
Gordon Edgar
Gavin Grant, Small Beer Press
Rebecca O. Johnson
Joy Harjo
Kelly Link
Paul Lisicky
Elizabeth McCracken
Damian McNicholl
Leslea Newman
Amanda Piasecki
Scattergood-Moore
Alison Smith
Don Stinson
Sarah Van Arsdale