Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Suzanne Snider

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: Hudson, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2004, 2007, 2009

Suzanne Snider is a writer, documentarian, and educator whose work is deeply influenced by oral history theory and practice. Her most recent projects include sound installation, essays, and archive design. In 2012, she founded Oral History Summer School in Hudson, NY to explore experimental applications of oral history as a field/practice. Her writing/audio work can be found in The Guardian, The Believer, The Washington Post, BOMB, among other publications, and is also included in several anthologies and artist catalogues. She has received support for her projects from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Radcliffe Institute/Schlesinger Library. After receiving an M.F.A. (nonfiction) from Columbia University (2003) as a Hertog Fellow, she pseudonymously published a book with Grove Press in 2004 (reprinted by Random House Japan 2005).