Susann Cokal is a moody historical novelist, a pop-culture essayist, book critic, magazine editor, and former professor of creative writing and modern literature. Her novel The Kingdom of Little Wounds won several national awards, including a Michael L. Printz Award Honor from the American Library Association … and is ranked number 78 on the ALA's list of most banned and challenged books of the decade 2010-2019. It received starred reviews in Kirkus, School Library Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and an ALAN citation from the National Council of Teachers of English. Positive reviews also appeared in The New York Times Book Review and other venues, and it appeared on many best-of lists for 2013, including Publishers Weekly and the Boston Globe. Her other books are Mirabilis (which began as her creative dissertation at Binghamton University), Breath and Bones, and Mermaid Moon. Her occasionally prizewinning short work has previously appeared in venues such as The Saturday Evening Post, Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Prairie Schooner, Gargoyle, The Journal, Writers on the Job, Broad Street, and The New York Times Book Review. She earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Berkeley and has published many scholarly articles as well.
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