Suzanne Feldman received her Masters in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of five novels, including Absalom’s Daughters (Holt, 2016, starred review in Kirkus) She was a Walter Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers Conference in 2019. Her latest novel, Sisters of the Great War, (Mira/HarperCollins, 2021) has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. In 2022 she was awarded her third grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, and won The Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize for her short story collection, The Witch Bottle. She has had two Pushcart nominations for short fiction.