About Susann:

Susann Cokal’s novels include Mirabilis, Mermaid Moon, and Breath and Bones. Her Kingdom of Little Wounds won several national awards, including a Michael L. Printz Honor from the American Library Association and a place on many best-of lists for the year. Her prize-winning shorter work has appeared in magazines such as Cincinnati Review, Electric Lit, Enchanted Living, Hunger Mountain, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, and The New York Times Book Review.  A former tenured professor of creative writing and modern literature, she is now an editor and freelancer who has written about sex (and emotions) in a wide variety of venues: novels, literary magazines, men’s magazines, pop culture encyclopedias, academic scholarship, and satire. She lives physically in a creaky old Virginia farmhouse and ethereally at susanncokal.com.