Bio
Susan Straight is the author of several novels, including the national bestseller Highwire Moon, a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the memoir In the Country of Women, named a best book of 2019 by NPR and Real Simple. She is the recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. She was born and continues to live in Riverside, California, with her family, where she serves as a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.Susan Straight Books
Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights
Susan StraightI Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
Susan StraightIn the Country of Women
Susan StraightHighwire Moon
Susan StraightBrazil-Maru
Karen Tei YamashitaThe Gettin' Place
Susan StraightThe Cocaine Chronicles
Gary PhillipsThe Cocaine Chronicles
Gary PhillipsTake One Candle Light a Room
Susan StraightOrange County Noir
Gary PhillipsA Million Nightingales
Susan StraightThe Friskative Dog
Susan StraightLos Angeles Noir
Denise Hamilton