susan tacent, Creature conserve writer in residence

SUSAN TACENT regularly teaches writing workshops for Creature Conserve. See our workshop schedule for the next opportunity to learn from her and write for the animals.

SUSAN TACENT is a writer, scholar, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her fiction has appeared in such journals as Blackbird, DIAGRAM, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Tin House, and her criticism, interviews, and scholarly writing has appeared in The Common, Dostoevsky Studies, The Keats-Shelley Journal, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has taught literature and creative writing at Oberlin College. She also co-founded and directed The Laurel School, a schoolhouse for grades 1-8 that was in operation for six years and where she taught creative writing and was Writer-in-Residence for the I Was There project, an oral history program for elementary students at the Vartan Gregorian School. She and her family live in Rhode Island.

Location: Providence, RI. USA

Instagram Handle: @susantacent

Website: www.susantacent.com