Contributor Spotlight: Susan Knox

“Remember Me” by Susan Knox appeared in Issue 30 and can be read here.

We’d love to hear more about this essay.

I started writing shortly before my son died in 1999. For the next few years I wrote a number of pieces about him and his death but I didn’t address the subject as a publishable story until four or five years later. I enrolled in a class where the assignment was to use different types of forms to realize a piece. Since I’d done so much early writing, the piece came to me easily and the form is one I enjoy using.

Recommend a book for us which was published with the last decade.

Weight of Ink by Rachel Kusher

If you could have a drink with any living author, who would it be? Why?

Ruth Ozeki.  I’ve read most of her work and admire it. I met her years ago and was drawn to her kind and graceful way of dealing with aspiring writers.

Our thanks to Susan for taking the time to answer a few questions and share her work. Read Susan’s essay, “Remember Me” , here: https://www.sequestrum.org/nonfiction-remember-me.

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Susan Knox writes creative nonfictions, short stories and is the author of Financial Basics, A Money Management Guide for Students published by The Ohio State University Press, 2nd edition 2016. Her stories and essays have appeared in Blue Lyra Review, CALYX, Cleaver, Forge, The MacGuffin, Zone 3, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net anthology. She and her husband live in Seattle, near Pike Place Market where she shops most days for the evening meal.