Sue William Silverman

Sue William Silverman is the award-winning author 7 books and 2 poetry collections.

In “How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences” Sue explores her fear of death and her metaphorical desire to escape it. In “The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew,” Sue writes about her misguided search for spirituality including three separate encounters with the 1960’s pop music icon, Pat Boone.

An earlier memoir, “Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You,” won the AWP award series in creative nonfiction, while "Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction” was also a Lifetime Television original movie. During the filming, Sue visited the set and makes a cameo appearance in the movie!

Her two craft books are “Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir” and “Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul,”

In addition to the AWP Award, Sue has won several Foreword Review INDIE Book of the Year Awards, an IPPY Award, and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature.

Be on the lookout for Sue's forthcoming book of flash essays, "Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader," in September 2025 with the University of Nebraska Press.

As a professional speaker, Sue has appeared on such television programs as The View, Anderson Cooper-360, CNN-Headline News, and PBS-Books. She is co-chair of the low-residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.