Sue is the author of Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal and Wandering Dixie: Dispatches from the Lost Jewish South, and is a contributing author to The New York Times Disunion: A History of the Civil War. She writes about her passions: history, travel, culture, hiking, nature, relationships, and life. Her work has been listed among the "Notable Essays of the Year" six times in The Best American Essays (2009, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2022) and has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, The Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Still: The Journal, Blue Lyra Review, Hunger Mountain, Virginia Living, The Forward, and other publications. She is a five-time Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches at the Johns Hopkins University M.A. in Writing Program and the M.A. in Science Writing Programs.
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