Full time student at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. Attending from Fall 2005 to Spring 2008.

A book about southern music and literature, including interviews with Eudora Welty, Charles Frazier, Lee Smith, Randall Kenan, and Lewis Nordan is forthcoming from the University Press of Mississippi.  With a Literature Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council, Susan Ketchin is researching and interviewing, writing, and recording music for a book and an accompanying CD that explores the relationship between southern musical forms and the South's strong traditions of storytelling and great literature.  Susan has performed and lectured about the fascinating finds she has made, notably an extensive series of interviews with the late Eudora Welty, and with Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain, a book which he says was conceived and written as a tribute to the music of his mountain homeland.