Suzanne McConnell
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Suzanne McConnell

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Suzanne McConnell was a student of Kurt Vonnegut’s at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when Vonnegut was finishing his masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and they remained friends for the rest of his life. She has published memoirs of him in The Brooklyn Rail on-line and the Writer’s Digest, and lectured on his work at the American Academy in Berlin, the 92nd Street Y, the AWP conference, and elsewhere. McConnell's fiction has won prizes and been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. Her short story collection If You Think Your Heart Can Take It and Other Stories is forthcoming from Serving House Books in June 2026. She taught at Hunter College for thirty years and served as the Fiction Editor of the Bellevue Literary Review for twenty and is now a Contributing Editor. She grew up in San Diego, attended San Diego State College, and began writing while at University of Arkansas earning a BA in Sociology. She lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts, with her husband, the artist Gary Kuehn.
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