Author

Susan Neville

Susan Neville is the author of the story collections Invention of Flight, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, and In the House of Blue Lights, winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize. Two of her stories have appeared in Pushcart Prize anthologies. Recent stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the

North American Review, the Southwest Review, and Image.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Jul 19 2023

My Bedeviled Country

My Bedeviled Country Susan Neville I have in my mind a special room with iron doors. The things I don’t like I throw in there and slam the doors. … read more

Fiction

Jan 31 2018

Hunger

I’m driving down the street and I have an overwhelming urge to take a bite out of my steering wheel, so I do. The steering wheel is black plastic, more… read more

Fiction

Mar 01 2000

The Restaurant with the Glass Lamps

Excerpt:

They were suspended over the Ohio River. It was nighttime, and she couldn’t see the water. There was a blinking cell-phone tower on the opposite shore, and her lover was driving toward it.