Susan Conley

Susan Conley’s novel, Paris Was the Place (Knopf, August 2013) is an Indie Next Pick and an Amazon Fall Big Books Fiction Selection. Her memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune (Knopf 2011), won the Maine Literary Award for Memoir, was excerpted in the New York Times Magazine and was an Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick of the Month. Other work of hers has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The Huffington Post, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, and the Massachusetts Arts Council. A former faculty member at Emerson College, she’s currently on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast MFA Program. She also teaches at Colby College and is a contributing writing to Maine Magazine. She is the co-founder of The Telling Room, a nonprofit creative writing lab in Portland, Maine.