Suzanne McNear

Suzanne McNear, a former editor and freelance journalist, now devotes herself to writing fiction and plays. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Vogue, and Redbook. Her short story “Notes from a Wisconsin Childhood,” was published in 1997 by Midnight Paper Sales and included wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. Her first collection of short stories, Drought, was published by Canio’s Books in 2004 and included several stories originally published in the Vintage Quarterly and Redbook. Her first novel, Knock Knock, was published in 2012, by The Permanent Press. Suzanne McNear’s recent collection of short stories, Swimming Lessons and Other Stories, was designed by the Grenfell Press and was published in June 2020. This collection includes, “Swimming Lessons,” which won the first fiction prize from The Green Mountain Review. For the past twenty years she has lived in Sag Harbor, New York. She lives in Sag Harbor in a house that is two hundred years old and almost vanished in the recent hurricane. During the summer she lives on a lake in northwestern Wisconsin. Her dog's name is Gus.