Susan Kushner Resnick

Susan Kushner Resnick has been a writer and journalist for 27 years, writing for publications ranging from obscure alternative weeklies to the mainstream The Providence Journal. She has freelanced for magazines, with her most impressive clip coming from The New York Times magazine. Her first book, Sleepless Days: One Woman's Journey Through Postpartum Depression (St. Martin's Press, 2001) was the first memoir of PPD by an American author. Her second, Goodbye Wifes and Daughters (University of Nebraska Press, 2010/11), won a Montana Book Award, a High Plains Literary Award and a gold medal from the Independent Book Publisher's Association. Her forthcoming book, You Saved Me, Too, will be published in October 2012 by Globe Pequot Press. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two teenagers, and teaches creative writing at Brown University.