What inspired you to write Spider in a Tree? I live in Northampton, Massachusetts, across the road from a beautiful cemetery. It’s quiet there, with lots of big, generous trees and many old…
Susan Stinson
Susan Stinson’s novels are Venus of Chalk (2004), Fat Girl Dances with Rocks(1994) and Martha Moody(1995) and Spider In A Tree (Small Beer Press, 2013). Belly Songs, a collection of poetry and lyric essays, was published in 1993. Her work — which has appeared in The Public Humanist, The Kenyon Review, The Seneca Review, Curve, Lambda Book Report and The Women’s Review of Books — has received the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Benjamin Franklin Award in Fiction as well as a number of fellowships. She was born in Texas, raised in Colorado, and now lives in Northampton, MA.
