Susan Sterling

SUSAN STERLING received a PhD in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Thomas College, and Colby College. Sterling facilitated workshops for grieving families and survivors of suicide for Hospice Volunteers of the Waterville Area and since moving to Portland volunteers at the Preble Street Soup Kitchen.

Her essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times, The North American Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, cream city review, Under the Sun, Down East, The Marlboro Review, and The Examined Life, among others. Her works have been anthologized in The Best American Sports Writing 1998, The Berkeley Women’s Literary Revolution, The Way Life Should Be: Stories by Contemporary Maine Writers, and A Healing Touch: True Stories of Life, Death, and Hospice. Her essay “Radiation Blooms” was awarded the John Guy-on Prize in Literary Nonfiction by Crab Orchard Review and was listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2007. Sterling is also the author of the novel, Dancing in the Kitchen (2012). She currently resides in Falmouth, Maine