TEACHER
EDITOR
“Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Suzanne McConnell is a veteran teacher and coach. She has taught at six universities, in an afterschool program for children, an Upward Bound program for teenagers, at a spa, an arts facility, hospitals, and in private workshops. For thirty years, she taught writing and literature at Hunter College (1983-2012) and was the Scholar/Facilitator for the Literature and Medicine program at the VA of New Jersey and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey for nine (2009-2016).
“This is what I find most encouraging about the writing trades. They allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Suzanne McConnell has worked with novelists and memorialists as an editor and writing coach for Greenline Publishing Consultants, as well as freelance. As a teacher, she estimates that she has edited over a thousand short stories from Hunter College fiction workshop students alone. As Fiction Editor of Bellevue Literary Review since 2006, she has edited more than 100 short stories for publication and considered over two thousand.
Testimonials
Suzanne McConnell’s class was a revelation. For the first time in my life, I wrote with ease.” ​–Josh Seiden, author of Outcomes Over Output
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A genius at getting the best out of all of us. Her classes are the reason I managed to finish a book.​
– Anita Naughton, author of Tea & Sympathy, director of Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
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One of the best editors out there. My work is always stronger for having been in her hands. – Kathryn Trueblood, author of Take Daily as Needed: A Novel in Stories
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Editor Suzanne McConnell accepted my story [“Remedies”] and edited with a keen eye and open heart​. – Kali Farjado-Anstine, author of Sabrina & Corina, in Poets & Writers