Susan Scutti is an American fiction writer, poet and journalist currently writing on medical issues for

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CBS Philly and Medical Daily. Scutti obtained her undergraduate degree from

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She then went on to earn a master's degree in American studies from

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. As a poet she has published a volume of verse ''The Commute'' (Paper Kite Press 2011 ) and had her poems included in several anthologies, such as ''Aloud: Voices from the

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'' (

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1994). and ''

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'' (Thunder's Mouth Press 1999), among others. As a writer of fiction she has published a book of short stories; ''The Renaissance Began with a Muted Shade of Green'' (Linear Arts 1999- )) and three novels, beginning with ''A kind of Sleep'' in 2004 (), ''Second Generation'' in () in 2008, both independently, and ''The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed'' (2011– available as a digital download from Raven Rock Press). A core member of the rag tag literary collective " the Unbearables", Scutti has works in several of their collections.

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New York Quarterly Foundation biography
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