Selected Works

Novels
This book unravels what you think you know about women and men, the freakish and the normal, shame and salvation -- then mends it anew into a most surprising story. -Alison Bechdel
I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous intersection of body and soul.-Elizabeth McCracken
Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met.-Judith Katz
Novel in manuscript
This is an amazing fictional world. -- Judith Frank

Links

Blog
The Writing Room
The Common
Adrienne Rich: Send Something Back essay
Lambda Literary Review
Other Side of the Paper: Jonathan Edwards as Slave-Owner
The Public Humanist
Honey, excerpt from SPIDER IN A TREE
Frequencies: a collaborative geneology of spirituality
Bundling, excerpt from Spider in a Tree
Necessary Fiction
Theology and insects: researching a novel
Necessary Fiction
Three Excerpts from MARTHA MOODY
Lavender Review
Lambda Literary
Lynne Gerber, Interview
Lambda Literary
Interview with Paul Lisicky
Lambda Literary
Interview with Sally Bellerose
Review of More of This World or Maybe Another by Barb Johnson
"Lesbian Writers on Forbidden Territory:" writing about Jonathan Edwards
Essay for WomenArts about why I persist in being an artist when the rewards are slow to come.
"Northampton Cemetery," poem. Text and audio file, The Daily Hampshire Gazette
Radio interview and reading, The Writer's Voice, WMUA and syndicated.
Interview with Susan Stinson by Francesca Rhiannon starts at 42:41, after some great Roethke poems. Most of the show is an interview with novelist Nicholson Baker. Reading from Spider In A Tree.
Review of American Romances by Rebecca Brown
Webcast of Millay Colony reading at Spotty Dog, Hudson, NY. WGXC
Not listed in the credits, but Susan Stinson is up first, reading from Spider in a Tree after a brief intro.
"Met Roof Garden," poem
"The Two Sams," review
Publishing Triangle: Top Ten Lesbian Books
Interview with Susan Stinson, Sharon Bridgforth and Lenore Chinn in the Women Arts Newsletter
Reflections on Anti-Gay Methodist Decision - audio commentary by Susan on WFCR
Writers and Artists I Like
Alison Bechdel
Sally Bellerose
Find Authors
Alexander Chee
Charlotte Cooper
Mark Doty
Gordon Edgar
Gavin Grant, Small Beer Press
Rebecca O. Johnson
Joy Harjo
Kelly Link
Paul Lisicky
Elizabeth McCracken
Damian McNicholl
Leslea Newman
Amanda Piasecki
Scattergood-Moore
Alison Smith
Don Stinson
Sarah Van Arsdale