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Suzanne Feldman

Suzanne Feldman received her Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of five novels, including Absalom’s Daughters (Holt, 2016, starred review in Kirkus). In 2022, she was awarded a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize for her short story collection The Witch Bottle.

2022 Washington Writers' Publishing House Fiction
Prize

Testimonials

  • Suzanne Feldman’s uncanny gift for unwrapping the human experience to expose our gritty fears, our fierce loves, is enthrallingly on display in these gleaming stories. With flashes of sly wit and a refusal to flinch, these beautifully composed fictions stand with the best that contemporary fiction has to offer.

    Elise Levine, author of Like This
  • FELDMAN CASTS A SPELL WITH THESE LAYERED, IMMERSIVE, OCCASIONALLY HILARIOUS STORIES, EACH ONE A MINATURE NOVEL IN ITS DEPTH, ITS WISDOM, ITS AFTERGLOW–

    Kathleen Wheaton
  • Olga Zilberbourg, author of Like Water and Other Stories

    Wide-ranging in subject matter and style, these stories are unwavering in their attention to human passions. Uplifting and heartbreaking moments go side by side in fiction as in life, and the punches come from the direction you least expect. Spending time Suzanne Feldman’s world is pure joy.