Suzanne Rivecca

Fiction Writer

Boston, MA

Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

Author of "Death is Not an Option" (WW Norton, 2010), a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN/Hemingway Award, and the Story Prize. My short fiction has received 2 Pushcart Prizes and inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2013.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Best New American Voices 2009 (Harcourt, 2008)

After The Bell: Short Prose About School (University of Iowa Press, 2007)

Best New American Voices 2008 (Harcourt, 2007)

Book:

Death is Not an Option: Stories (Norton, 2010)

Journals:

Another Chicago Magazine

Artful Dodge

Fence

Prizes won:

Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Wallace Stegner Fellowship in fiction
Radcliffe Institute Creative Artists Fellowship
2 Pushcart Prizes in fiction
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Italian American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Kalamazoo

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Last update: May 21, 2013