Susan Daitch

Susan Daitch graduated from Barnard College and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Guernica , Tablet , Tin House , McSweeney's, Bomb, Conjunctions, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction , and elsewhere. Susan's work was the subject of a Review of Contemporary Fiction , along with that of David Foster Wallace, and William Vollman. Her first novel, L.C...See more

Susan Daitch graduated from Barnard College and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Guernica , Tablet , Tin House , McSweeney's, Bomb, Conjunctions, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction , and elsewhere. Susan's work was the subject of a Review of Contemporary Fiction , along with that of David Foster Wallace, and William Vollman. Her first novel, L.C ., was a recipient of an NEA heritage award and a Lannan Foundation grant. Fall Out , a novella, was published by Madras Press, all proceeds donated to Women For Afghan Women. She has also received two Vogelstein Foundation awards and a Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her novel, Siege of Comedians was listed as one of the best books of 2021 in The Wall Street Journal . One of her essays was listed as a Notable in the Best American Essays 2022. Her work has been translated into German, Spanish, and Italian. See less