Susan Penn is a fiction writer. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Brooklyn College and an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Texas-Austin. Awards include the Michael Adams Prize and the Himan Brown Award. She has been teaching as an adjunct lecturer in the English department at Brooklyn College since 2010.
She used her time at MacDowell to make significant headway towards her linking short story collection, inspired by her time spent living across the Golden Gate in Marin County, CA. The collection explores the effects of time, memory, obsession, and the possibility of redemption as characters struggle with loss in an insular 1980's SF Bay Area fringe-of-society community. Her years designing and creating embroidered stagewear for musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area and Austin, Texas also inspire her writing.
