Susan Tekulve

Susan Tekulve is the author of In the Garden of Stone, winner of the 2012 South Carolina First Novel Award and a 2013 SIBA “Okra Award.” She’s also published three short story collections: Savage Pilgrims, Wash Day and My Mother’s War Stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in Shenandoah, The Georgia Review, New Letters, Best New Writing 2007, The Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, North Dakota Quarterly, Connecticut Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, Webdelsol, Black Warrior Review, and The Kansas City Star. Susan’s latest book, Second Shift: Essays, came out with Del Sol Press in 2018. She has been awarded a Sewannee Writers’ Conference Scholarship and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship. An Associate Professor of English at Converse College, she teaches in the BFA and MFA in Creative Writing Programs.

A recipient of Converse College’s Kathryn Amelia Brown Teaching Award, her teaching interests include creative writing: short fiction, novel writing, nonfiction, memoir writing, travel writing, and professional writing. She also teaches World Literature, Short Fiction as Literature and Appalachian Literature. She has taught creative writing study abroad courses in Italy.