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Sue William Silverman

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Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of seven books of creative nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent memoir is How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, named by Bitch Media as one of “9 essay collections feminists should read in 2020.” Others include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which was made into a Lifetime TV movie; The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the AWP Award; and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. Her essays have won competitions sponsored by Water~Stone Review, Mid-American Review, Hotel Amerika, and Blue Mesa Review. She teaches in the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress

  • Sue William Silverman
  • December 15, 2020
I want to see myself as a whole person.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan

  • Sue William Silverman
  • June 30, 2020
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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Whole Lotta (Middle-Aged) Love

  • Sue William Silverman
  • November 3, 2015
The first time I saw Adam on television, on American Idol, past and present collided, as if psychedelic clothes, gnawed by moths, are suddenly rewoven, resurrected.
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