Suzanne Farrell Smith

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Wilton, CT
Connecticut US

Author's Bio

Suzanne Farrell Smith is the author of The Memory Sessions, a memoir about her search for lost childhood memory; The Writing Shop, a guidebook for writing teachers; and Small Off Things, an essay collection forthcoming from Littoral Books. She is widely published, has been named Notable in Best American, and won a Pushcart for her essay “If You Find a Mouse on a Glue Trap,” published in Brevity. She teaches writing at Westport Writers’ Workshop, mentors emerging authors, reads for Longridge Review, and is founding editor of Waterwheel Review. Suzanne lives by a creek in the Connecticut woods with her husband, three sons, and two cats.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Selected Memories (Hippocampus Press, 2017)
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Oh, Baby! True Stories about Conception, Adoption, Surrogacy, Pregnancy, Labor, and Love (In Fact Books, 2015)
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Ascent
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Connotation Press
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ink&coda
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Pank
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Pembroke Magazine
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Referential Magazine
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The Citron Review
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The Monarch Review
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The Wanderlust Review
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Prizes won: 

Pushcart Prize

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Gretel Ehrlich Joan Didion Zadie Smith Terry Tempest Williams Annie Dillard James Baldwin Eula Biss Rebecca Makkai Andrew Lam Lia Purpura Roxane Gay Barry Lopez
What I'm reading now: 
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New London, CT
Connecticut
Raised in: 
Gales Ferry, CT
Connecticut
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Last update: Sep 08, 2022