About Author
Susan Lohafer
is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A., magna cum laude), Stanford University (M.A. in Creative Writing), and New York University (Ph.D. in American Literature). During her academic career at the University of Iowa, she specialized in short fiction theory. Her books include Coming to Terms with the Short Story, and Reading for Storyness: Preclosure Theory, Empirical Poetics, and Culture in the Short Story, as well as the co-edited volume Short Story Theory at a Crossroads. Shorter works include the short story entry in The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945, a personal essay listed as a Notable Essay of 2011 in The Best American Essays 2012, and a few short stories in venues like The Southern Review.
She now lives with her husband in Tennessee. After moving there, she became interested in the state’s Civil War background, and published the historical novel The Reluctant Patriot, based on a true story set in the Unionist counties of this Confederate state. In her latest project, she returns to her lifelong devotion to short fiction. The Belle of Sleepy Hollow is a series of tales that interact with, and speak to, a number of classic American short stories.
