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Faculty

Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan Rebecca White graduated from Brown University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. Her debut novel, Bound South, a Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) bestseller, was called a “wonderful debut” by Publishers Weekly, “engrossing” by Vanity Fair.com, and received a glowing review from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which said of the book: “Bound South comes dressed in innocence and comedy…but underneath, its concerns are far more serious—the role of religion in the South; dignity as it exists across class divisions; sexuality and its many perplexing forms; cultural rituals and their fragile but confining terms; what it means to listen to your soul and what can happen when you do more than just listen.”

Susan’s second novel, A Soft Place to Land, was published by Touchstone / Simon and Schuster in April 2010.

You can visit her website at SusanRebeccaWhite.com.

Listen to Susan on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Cover to Cover” with Frank Reiss: http://gpbcovertocover.blogspot.com/2009/05/family-saga-with-universal-themes.html

Listen to Susan on WUNC’s “The State of Things” with Frank Stasio: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0312c09.mp3/view

Read Vanity Fair.com’s Q&A with Susan: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/02/10/how-bound-south-epitomizes-southern-living.html

Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of Bound South: http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printedition/2009/03/01/bound0301bk.html?cxntlid=inform_sr

Read Susan’s short story “Joie de Vivre Means Pain in my Ass, Right?” excerpted in the Dalton Gallery’s “Blackbird on your shoulder: stories and other truths from the South”: http://daltongallery.agnesscott.edu/blackbird/writers/white.html

Bound South

A Soft Place to Land