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- ↑ "Susan Stinson of Northampton proud to be writer in residence at Forbes Library". MassLive.com , June 19, 2012.
- ↑ "LGBT writer finds freedom as novelist". MassLive.com , May 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Alex Sanchez and Susan Stinson Awarded Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize". Lambda Literary Foundation, April 21, 2011.
