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Suzanne Strempek Shea
Suzanne Strempek Shea is the author of
"Selling the Lite of Heaven," "Hoopi Shoopi Donna," "Lily of
the Valley," and "Around Again," all published by Pocket Books
(now Atria). A memoir titled "Songs From a Lead-lined Room,"
the account of her radiation treatments for breast cancer, is
now out in paperback from Beacon Press.
 A
second non-fiction book, "Shelf Life: Romance, Mystery, Drama
and Other Page-Turning Adventures From a Year in a Bookstore,"
tells of her first year working in a small independent
bookstore and will be published in May of 2004 by Beacon
Press. "Becoming Finola," her fifth novel and her first set in
Ireland, will be published in July of 2004 by Atria (formerly
Pocket Books).
A graduate of the former Portland (Maine)
School of Art, now the Maine College of Art, Suzanne has been
staff writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Newspapers and the
Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin. She also has freelanced
for publications including Yankee magazine, The Boston Globe
Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the former New England
Monthly.
She was the 2000 recipient of the New
England Book Award for Fiction, presented by the New England
Booksellers Association for a body of work that has
contributed to the literature of the New England region. After
being published in Yankee, Suzanne's short story "The Sweater"
was included in a list of 100 distinguished stories of 1999
printed in the 2000 edition of The Best American Short
Stories.
She is a member of the faculty at the
University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast Low-Residency MFA in
Creative Writing, and is an adjunct faculty member in the MFA
program at Emerson College in Boston.
She is a native of Western Massachusetts,
and lives there - and knits there - in the village of
Bondsville.
Story: The Live-Lobster Sweater,
KnitLit Too
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