Vermont College of Fine Arts

Sue William Silverman

SUE WILLIAM SILVERMAN's memoir Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual Addiction (W. W. Norton) is also a Lifetime television original movie (nominated for two PRISM Awards). Her first memoir, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You (Univ. of Georgia Press), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs award in creative nonfiction. One of her essays appears in The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (Simon & Schuster), while three others won contests with Hotel Amerika, Mid-American Review, and Water~Stone Review. Her poetry collection is Hieroglyphics in Neon (Orchises Press). Other poems, essays, and short stories (four nominated for a Pushcart Prize) have appeared in such places as Prairie Schooner, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Redbook, Southern Poetry Review, The Caribbean Writer, Brevity, Arts & Letters, Louisville Review, and River Teeth. Sue was featured in an interview in The Writer’s Chronicle, and she has appeared on various national radio and television programs such as “The View,” “Anderson Cooper—360,” and “CNN-Headline News,” as well as the Discovery Channel. She is associate editor of Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. Her most recent book is Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir (Univ. of Georgia Press). Sue has an honorary doctorate from Aquinas College for her work in literature and child abuse victim advocacy. For more information, please visit www.suewilliamsilverman.com.