Susan Gabriel sFinalist for the 2011 Linda Flowers Literary Award

sFinalist for the Women Playwrights' Initiative Competition

sFinalist for the Robert Ruark Short Fiction Contest

Susan Gabriel writes with passion, humor and insight about Southerners, both wise and wounded; teens, both ordinary and odd; and the people who love them, both explicit and unconscious. While she at times has written plays, poetry and nonfiction (see her blog), Susan primarily writes novels and short stories.
 

Secrets figure prominently in Susan's work, secrets we keep from ourselves and the ones we keep from others, secrets we dare not tell and the ones we must reveal in order to survive.

Susan recognizes few labels other than "human" ("I'm a writer, not a genre" she says) and delights in the feedback from her readers from Portugal to Portland, New York to New Zealand.

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Latest Work:

Seeking Sara Summers

Seeking Sara Summers

In this lyrical, poignant and oftentimes funny novel, Susan Gabriel takes us on a journey into the soul of relationship. Sara Summers Stanton has raised a family but her 25 year marriage is showing cracks in the facade and now she's dealing with breast cancer. In a rare moment of taking care of herself instead of everyone else, Sara takes a sabbatical and goes on the trip to Italy she has always dreamed of taking. . .

 

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