Sue William Silverman

Sue William Silverman is an award-winning author of seven works of creative nonfiction and poetry. Her most recent book, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, was named “one of 9 essay collections feminists should read in 2020” by Bitch Media. Other nonfiction books include Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction, which was made into a Lifetime TV movie; Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, which won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award; The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew; and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir. Her most recent poetry collection, If the Girl Never Learns, won two gold medals from the Human Relations Indie Book Awards. Individual essays have won awards from Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone, and Blue Mesa Review. She teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.