Susann Cokal

Susann Cokal is a moody historical novelist, a pop-culture essayist, a book critic, and an editor. She lives in a creepy old farmhouse in Richmond, Virginia, with a witchy number of cats, a drummer, and some peacocks that supposedly belong to a neighbor.

Susann's third novel, The Kingdom of Little Wounds, received several national awards, including a silver medal from the American Library Association's Michael L. Printz Award series. It also sits at number 78 on the ALA's list of the most banned and challenged books of the decade from 2010 to 2019. She is the author of two previous novels, Mirabilis and Breath and Bones, which also got some nice notice. Her latest novel, Mermaid Moon, is for young adults.

Her shorter work has been published in a variety of literary journals and anthologies, such as Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Writers on the Job, The Saturday Evening Post, Prairie Schooner, Writers Ask, Gargoyle, Sequestrum, and The New York Times Book Review. She holds Ph.D.'s in Comparative Literature and English (one each) and is also a freelance editor.

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