Susan Straight | |
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 Straight in 2010 | |
| Born | October 19, 1960 Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Education | Riverside Community College University of Southern California University of Massachusetts Amherst (MFA) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Website | susanstraight |
Susan Straight (born October 19, 1960) is an American writer. She was a National Book Award finalist for the novel Highwire Moon in 2001.
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Susan Straight attended John W. North High School in Riverside, California and took classes at Riverside Community College while in high school. She went on to earn a scholarship to the University of Southern California and, in 1984, earned her M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets & Writers. She co-founded the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts program at University of California, Riverside, where she is currently a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and the director of the graduate program.
Straight has published eight novels, a novel for young readers and a children's book. She has also written essays and articles for numerous national publications, including The New York Times , Los Angeles Times , The Nation and Harper's Magazine , and is a frequent contributor to NPR and Salon . Her story "Mines", first published in Zoetrope: All-Story , was included in The Best American Short Stories 2003.
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Straight lives in Riverside, California. She has three daughters.
| Year | Title | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
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| 1990 | Aquaboogie | Milkweed National Fiction Prize | — | Won | [1] |
| 2001 | Highwire Moon | National Book Award | Fiction | Finalist | [2] |
| 2007 | — | Lannan Literary Award | Fiction | Won | [3] |
| 2008 | "The Golden Gopher" | Edgar Awards | Best Short Story | Won | [4] |
| 2013 | — | Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Robert Kirsch Award | [5] |
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| Year | Title | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| ???? | Tulsa, 1921 | ???? | Golden, Marita; Shreve, Susan Richards, eds. (1995). Skin deep : Black women & White women write about race . New York: Nan A. Talese. ISBN 9780385474092. |
| 2003 | "Mines" | Zoetrope: All-Story | |
| 2005 | "Poinciana" | The Cocaine Chronicles | |
| 2007 | "The Golden Gopher" | Los Angeles Noir [4] | |
| "El Ojo de Agua" | The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 | ||
| 2018 | "The Princess of Valencia" | Amazon Original Stories [7] | |
| "The Perseids," | Granta [8] |
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