Susan Messer has had fiction and nonfiction published in Triquarterly, Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, After Hours, Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and Another Chicago Magazine. Awards include an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in prose, an Illinois Arts Council literary award for creative nonfiction, and writing prizes from Moment magazine, Chicago Public Radio, and the Center for Yiddish Culture. Her first novel Grand River and Joy was chosen by the University of Michigan Honors College as the summer reading book for freshman. She lives with her husband in Oak Park, Illinois, and works as an editor.
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Cameron Gearen Is the author of Some Perfect Year (Shearsman Press). From 2017 to 2019, she was the writer in residence for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.