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Susan Cathcart Ketchin’s experience in writing, teaching, and publishing includes
her posts as Editor of The St. Andrews Review, Fiction
Editor for Southern Exposure Magazine at the Institute for
Southern Studies in Durham, NC, and Associate and Fiction Editor for
DoubleTake Magazine at the Center for Documentary Studies at
Duke University. She has served as Associate Editor at
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, and Editor for the Fiction
Series, University Press of Mississippi. In 1978, Ketchin
established an editorial consulting service, Renascence Literary
Services, which she now runs from her office in Beaufort, NC.
Ketchin has taught creative writing, and Southern literature and
religion at Duke University (1994-1997), at North Carolina State
University (1980-85; 2001-2002), and elsewhere. In 1996, she was
the Eudora Welty Co-Chair of Southern Studies at Millsaps College. In spring, 1999, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Duke
Divinity School; most recently, she has taught U.S. and regional
language and culture at Duke University's Summer Institute for International MBA Students
(Fuqua School of Business) from 2002 to the present. In the fall, 2004 Ketchin has been invited to be a
Visiting Scholar at the Faulkner Foundation, University of
Rennes, II, Rennes, France.
Ketchin’s
publications include articles and reviews, and two books, The
Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction
(University Press of Mississippi, 1994) and 25 and Under:
Fiction (W.W. Norton, 1997), co-edited with Neil Giordano. She
is currently working on a book about Southern literature and music
with a Literature Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.
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Ketchin is an accomplished musician specializing in traditional
American music (folk, jazz, gospel, and blues) and has performed and
recorded with her bands, the Angelettes, the Tarwater Band, and
Ain’t Misbehavin.’ To contact Susan Ketchin,
please write to her at:
susanketchin@mac.com
To learn more about Susan:
Link to Google
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Eudora Welty, Susan's
daughter, Catherine,
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