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Susan Straight is an acclaimed author of fiction, including the National Book Award finalist Highwire Moon. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s Magazine, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Her short stories have won an Edgar Award and an O. Henry Award. She teaches at the University of California, Riverside.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Aquaboogie

I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

The Gettin' Place

Highwire Moon

A Million Nightingales

The Friskative Dog

Take One Candle Light a Room

Between Heaven and Here

The Princess of Valencia

Mecca

Mecca


Sacrament

Standalone Non-fiction

In the Country of Women

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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