Susan Schoenberger
Guidepost Books will publish Susan's first novel -- originally called Intercession but now titled A Watershed Year -- in Spring 2011.
A Watershed Year won the gold medal for novel in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition in 2006 and was short-listed that year for the Peter Taylor Prize. The first chapter is based on a short story published in the literary journal Inkwell in 2003.
Susan has been a copy editor and reporter for many years, and a fiction writer for the last decade. Since taking a buyout from The Hartford Courant in mid-2008, Susan has pursued various writing, editing and consulting endeavors, and this website outlines them. It also features a portfolio of some of her published short fiction, essays and award-winning headlines.
She is now working on a second novel, tentatively titled The Virtues of Oxygen, about three adult siblings in financial crisis hoping to get part of their wealthy father's inheritance.
Praise for Intercession (A Watershed Year)
“Intercession is a well-told tale of life and death and the way, when we least expect it, love can encompass us roundabout. In the intriguing relationship between Lucy and Harlan – and relationship that continues long after the death of one and well into the blossoming life of the other – this author has created a vivid and continuous dream of what it means to create a kind of family, for better and worse. This is a brave and moving novel.”
-- Faulkner contest judge Brett Lott, editor of the Southern Review and author of Jewel.
