Susan Tekulve

Susan Tekulve’s newest book is Second Shift: Essays (Del Sol Press, 2018). She is the author of In the Garden of Stone, winner of the 2012 South Carolina First Novel Prize and a 2014 Gold IPPY Award. She’s also published two short story collections: Savage Pilgrims and My Mother’s War Stories. Her nonfiction, short stories and essays have appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Indiana Review, The Georgia Review, Connecticut Review, The Louisville Review, Puerto del Sol, New Letters, and Shenandoah. Her web chapbook, Wash Day, appears in the Web Del Sol International Chapbook Series, and her story collection, My Mother’s War Stories, received the 2004 Winnow Press fiction prize.

She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Her teaching interests include creative writing: fiction, creative writing: nonfiction, professional writing, and contemporary fiction.

She has taught creative writing study abroad courses in Italy for the Converse travel study program. In 2004, she received the Kathryn Amelia Brown Teaching Award. She teaches in the BFA and MFA writing programs at Converse.