Author, Editor, & Teacher

Susanna Daniel’s debut novel, Stiltsville, was awarded the PEN/Bingham prize for best debut work published in 2010, and her second novel, Sea Creatures, was a Target Book Club Selection.

Susanna is a co-founder, with author Michelle Wildgen, of the Madison Writers’ Studio. She is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Writers’ Workshop and a Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the UW Institute for Creative Writing, a UCross Foundation Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. Her writing has been published in Newsweek, Slate, One Story, Epoch, and elsewhere.

Susanna was born and raised in Miami, Florida, where she spent much of her childhood at her family’s stilt house in Biscayne Bay. Today, she lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where during the long winter she dreams of the sun and the sea, and of jumping off the stilt house porch at high tide.

Susanna is available for speaking engagements and one-on-one editing and manuscript consultation. You can contact her via email.