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Susan Ketchin’s diverse 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 continues to operate.
Susan has taught Creative Writing and Religion and Literature of the American South 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; she has also taught U.S. and Regional Language and Culture at Duke University's Summer Institute for International MBA Students at the Fuqua School of Business.
Susan’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. Currently, she is working on a book that explores the impact and healing power of southern music in her life growing up in the Christ-haunted south.
In addition to writing and editing, Susan lectures and performs throughout the U.S. on Spiritual Autobiography, God in Southern Story and Song, and Music and the Spirit of Community-making. Having studied theology and the arts at Union Theological Seminary, NYC, Susan tutors theological writing and leads workshops in "Faith and Fiction Writing" at the Center for Theology, Writing, and Media at Duke Divinity School.
Susan is an accomplished musician specializing in traditional American music (folk, jazz, gospel, and blues). She sings and plays guitar, banjo, and upright bass and has recorded award-winning albums with Rounder/Flying Fish Records.
To contact Susan, please write to her at:
susanketchin@mac.com
To learn more about Susan:
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