Sue Repko

My essays have been named notable in The Best American Essays 2016, 2017 and 2019. “What A Bullet Can Do” also won the 2019 Maine Literary Award for Short Nonfiction. Other works of creative nonfiction have appeared in The Independent, Brevity Blog, Hazlitt, The Southeast Review, Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, Hippocampus, Literal Latte, The Common, The Keeping Room, Princeton Alumni Weekly and elsewhere. Prior to writing nonfiction, my fiction appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Broken Bridge Review and elsewhere. I am the co-author of Legendary Locals of Pottstown (Arcadia, 2013), which tells the history of my hometown through the stories and images of critical figures, past and present. 

I have an MFA from Bennington College, a master’s in city and regional planning from Rutgers University, and a degree in psychology from Princeton University. After teaching English at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire for 5 years, I returned to the Mid-Atlantic region. As a freelance editor and essay coach I help adult and teen writers tell their true stories on the page. I have given readings at KGB Bar, (the late) Cornelia Street Café, Princeton Arts Council, The Word Barn (Exeter, NH), Book & Bar (Portsmouth, NH), and Quiet City Books (Lewiston, ME).