Suzanne Kingsbury was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Guilford, Connecticut. She has since lived in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Deep South, the Southwest, New England, Mexico and Panama. She is the author of two novels, which were both optioned for film in the summer of 2005 and have been translated into five languages. The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me (Scribner, 2002) and The Gospel According to Gracey (Scribner, 2004). She is the co-editor of the anthology of southern writers, The Alumni Grill (Macadam and Cage, 2004) and has been anthologized in The Blue Moon Café and At My Grandmother’s Table. Her articles have appeared in Atlanta Magazine and Glamour magazine, among others. She won the 1999 Oxford Town Fiction Prize, has been an artist-in-residency at Yaddo, and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Sri Lanka, where she studied temple ritual and ceremony and learned Kandyan dance and drumming. She has taught for Mississippi State, The University of Georgia, PIMA writing program, Ohio Wesleyan University, the Lost State Writer’s Conference, Tennessee’s Council for the Written Word and has been a presenter and panelist at literary festivals and conferences across the country. She is currently working on a series of novels about America at war, including a book about the US occupation of Panama during the time of Noriega, a novel about the aftermath of the Korean war in a small New England town, and Montana during the 1960s draft for Vietnam. She lives in Brattleboro, Vermont and makes her second home in Panama City, Panama.
