Posts by Suzanne Richardson

Teaching is a dance and it doesn’t always go well, even when both parties know the steps.

Just the other day I entered my office after winter break, sat down to do some work and came face to face with a copy of a literary journal that rejected me about seven years ago. At the time I was a first-year at an MFA program. I was pouring unresolved issues in my life Read more ›

I do not believe you retain the identity of “writer” even if you’re not writing, in the way that addicts are always addicts even when they’re sober.

It boggles my mind that people go to MFA programs which forbid them to take courses in other genres.

As a writing teacher I am in the business of helping people see their voices, their lives, their experiences as meaningful, as conduits for connection.