SUZANNE McCONNELL is the author of Pity The Reader: On Writing with Style, along with Kurt Vonnegut. Twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, her stories, essays, and poems have appeared and won prizes in many publications. She has been granted residencies at Ucross Foundation, the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, and Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts. She taught writing and literature at Hunter College for thirty years and was the Fiction Editor at Bellevue Literary Review for eighteen years, where she now serves as a contributing Fiction Editor.
 

McConnell holds a MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in Sociology from the University of Arkansas. She grew up in San Diego and lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts with her husband, visual artist Gary Kuehn.