Suzanne Greenberg

Suzanne Greenberg is the author of the short story collection SHOPPING FOR DAD AND OTHER STORIES (Arroyo Seco Press, June, 2024), the novel LESSON PLANS (Prospect Park Books, May, 2014) and SPEED-WALK AND OTHER STORIES, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), the Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner chosen by Rick Moody. That collection was also a finalist, in 2004, for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Her work has appeared in many publications including SANTA MONICA REVIEW, WEST BRANCH, MISSISSIPPI REVIEW and THE WASHINGTON POST MAGAZINE. She is the co-author with Lisa Glatt of two children’s novels, ABIGAIL IRIS: THE ONE AND ONLY and ABIGAIL IRIS: THE PET PROJECT (Walker Books/Bloomsbury USA 2009 and 2010). She is also the co-author, with Michael C. Smith, of EVERYDAY CREATIVE WRITING: PANNING FOR GOLD IN THE KITCHEN SINK (distributed by McGraw Hill). She received her MFA from the University of Maryland and teaches creative writing at California State University, Long Beach, where she’s a professor of English.