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Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan Rebecca White graduated from Brown University and received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was awarded a teaching fellowship and the James Purdy Prize for outstanding fiction. Her debut novel, Bound South, a Southern Independent Booksellers Association (SIBA) bestseller, was called a “wonderful debut” by Publishers Weekly, “engrossing” by Vanity Fair.com, and received a rave review from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which said of the book: “Bound South comes dressed in innocence and comedy…but underneath, its concerns are far more serious—the role of religion in the South; dignity as it exists across class divisions; sexuality and its many perplexing forms; cultural rituals and their fragile but confining terms; what it means to listen to your soul and what can happen when you do more than just listen.”

Currently at work on her second novel, Susan lives near downtown Atlanta with her husband, writer Alan Deutschman. You can visit her website at SusanRebeccaWhite.com.

Listen to Susan on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s “Cover to Cover” with Frank Reiss: http://gpbcovertocover.blogspot.com/2009/05/family-saga-with-universal-themes.html

Listen to Susan on WUNC’s “The State of Things” with Frank Stasio: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0312c09.mp3/view

Read Vanity Fair.com’s Q&A with Susan: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/culture/2009/02/10/how-bound-south-epitomizes-southern-living.html

Read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution review of Bound South: http://www.ajc.com/business/content/printedition/2009/03/01/bound0301bk.html?cxntlid=inform_sr

Read Susan’s short story “Joie de Vivre Means Pain in my Ass, Right?” excerpted in the Dalton Gallery’s “Blackbird on your shoulder: stories and other truths from the South”: http://daltongallery.agnesscott.edu/blackbird/writers/white.html

Bound South