Susan Stinson is an American writer. She has published four novels and a collection of poetry.
Born in
Texas and raised in
Colorado, she currently lives in
Northampton, Massachusetts
The city of Northampton is the county seat of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of Northampton (including its outer villages, Florence and Leeds) was 29,571.
Northampton is known as an acade ...
, where she is
writer in residence at the
Forbes Library. She is an out
lesbian
A lesbian is a Homosexuality, homosexual woman.Zimmerman, p. 453. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate n ...
.
Awards
Stinson was awarded the
Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize The Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize is an American literary award, presented to two writers, one male and one female, from the LGBT community to honour their body of work. First presented by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festi ...
in 2011.
"Alex Sanchez and Susan Stinson Awarded Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize"
Lambda Literary Foundation, April 21, 2011. Her novel ''Venus of Chalk'' was a Lambda Literary Award finalist and was named one of the ten best books of the year by Publishing Triangle
The Publishing Triangle, founded in 1988 by Robin Hardy, is an American association of gay men and lesbians in the publishing industry. They sponsor an annual National Lesbian and Gay Book Month, and have sponsored the annual Triangle Awards prog ...
, and she is a past winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association's Benjamin Franklin Award for Fiction.
Works
*''Belly Songs'' (1993)
*''Fat Girl Dances with Rocks'' (1994, )
*''Martha Moody'' (1995, )
*''Venus of Chalk'' (2004, )
*''Spider in a Tree'' (2013, )
References
External links
Susan Stinson
American women novelists
American women poets
Novelists from Texas
Novelists from Massachusetts
American lesbian writers
Living people
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
American LGBT poets
American LGBT novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American women writers
20th-century American poets
21st-century American poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
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