Sue William Silverman

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of nine works of nonfiction and poetry. Her latest, a collection of flash essays, is Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader. Other works include How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences (which won the gold star in Foreword Reviews INDIE Book of the Year Award and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature); The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew; and a craft book Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul. She’s co-chair of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.