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Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Suzanne McConnell will read from her new story collection, If You Think Your Heart Can Take It and Other Stories. Pamela Ryder, Author of Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him: The Lives of Billy the Kid, praises If You Think Your Heart Can Take It by saying: "Don’t miss reading these stories. Each is an alchemist’s stone transforming the ordinariness of everyday life into literary truth and artistry." Meanwhile, Joan Leegant, author of Displaced Persons, winner of the New American Press Fiction Prize, says: "McConnell is a master of precision. Her prose shines on the page. This collection gloriously pushes the boundaries of the form."Suzanne McConnell is the author of Pity The Reader: On Writing with Style, by Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell. 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 20 years. McConnell holds an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in Sociology from the University of Arkansas, where she started writing. She grew up in San Diego and lives in New York City and Wellfleet, Massachusetts with her husband, visual artist Gary Kuehn.
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