Novelist Susan Schoenberger to Give Reading Oct. 6

苏珊·舍恩伯格是一名作家, editor and copy editor at various newspapers, 包括《365平台》和《观察家报, The Baltimore Sun and The Hartford Courant. 自2013年以来, she has been director of communications at Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, a graduate school that focuses on interfaith dialogue and peacebuilding.

 

Schoenberger began writing fiction seriously after attending the Wesleyan Writers Conference in 2001. 她的第三部小说, 《爱的责任》,” was published by She Writes Press in 2021.

 

“代祷,” her first novel (published as “A Watershed Year”), won the top prize in the 2006 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing competition. “代祷” was also one of seven finalists for the Peter Taylor Prize given by the Knoxville Writers Guild. 2007年初, Schoenberger received an Artist 研究员hip Grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

 

“A Watershed Year” was sold to Guideposts Books in 2009 and released in 2011. It was re-released by Amazon’s Lake Union division in 2013. Susan’s second novel, “The Virtues of Oxygen,” was published in 2014.

 

Schoenberger has three grown children and lives in West Hartford, Conn., with her husband and unpredictable dog named Leo.

 

活动晚上7点开始.m. 并且免费向公众开放. This event will be held in Werner Centennial Center (WCC). Ample parking is available in the parking lot adjacent to WCC. The student reader will be Asia Daniela Odong ’24.

 

The Michael Cervas 访问作家计划, which includes the Friday Nights at Westminster series, is supported by generous gifts from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund, 麦金利基金, 康奈尔音乐基金, and the Friday Nights at Westminster Fund.