Discipline: Literature – fiction

Susan Ito

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

Susan Ito is the author of the memoir, The Mouse Room, and the co-editor of the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). Her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Literary Mama, The Bellevue Literary Review, Making More Waves and elsewhere. She writes and teaches at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and at the M.F.A. program at Bay Path College.

Studios

Barnard

Susan Ito worked in the Barnard studio.

Originally built near MacDowell's Union Street entrance, the Barnard Studio — which was funded by Barnard College music students — was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room. This remodeling, financed by Mrs. Thomas E. Emery of Cincinnati…

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