Suzanne Scanlon
Professional Writing
Suzanne
Scanlon is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Creative
Writing from Illinois State University, where she studied with Curtis
White and David Foster Wallace. Her story, “Her 37th Year, An Index” was
recently chosen by Allan Gurganus for The Iowa Review fiction award; it will be published there this Fall. Other selections from her collection, Promising Young Women, have been published recently in PANK, Midwestern Gothic, DIAGRAM, juked, Requited and elsewhere. Her critical essays have appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction and The American Scholar. Suzanne currently writes about theater for Time Out Chicago.
As an actress, Suzanne has performed in New York City with The Bread and Puppet Theater (Theater for the New City) and at Performance Space 122 and the WOW Cafe, in a solo performance piece she created while working with the performance artist Holly Hughes. She was also in an Off-Broadway revival of Hatful of Rain at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Most recently, Suzanne has performed in Chicago with a number of local companies; she is currently developing the Chicago-premiere production of the play Telephone by the poet Ariana Reines (projected summer/fall of 2012).
Suzanne teaches Intro to Lit, Women's Literature, Dramatic Literature, Creative Nonfiction, and Reviewing the Arts. She has also taught at The School of the Art Institute, DePaul University, and Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.
As an actress, Suzanne has performed in New York City with The Bread and Puppet Theater (Theater for the New City) and at Performance Space 122 and the WOW Cafe, in a solo performance piece she created while working with the performance artist Holly Hughes. She was also in an Off-Broadway revival of Hatful of Rain at the Samuel Beckett Theatre. Most recently, Suzanne has performed in Chicago with a number of local companies; she is currently developing the Chicago-premiere production of the play Telephone by the poet Ariana Reines (projected summer/fall of 2012).
Suzanne teaches Intro to Lit, Women's Literature, Dramatic Literature, Creative Nonfiction, and Reviewing the Arts. She has also taught at The School of the Art Institute, DePaul University, and Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey.
Office Location: English Department, suite 527, 5th floor, 33 E. Congress
Office Phone: (312) 369-8125
FAX: 312-369-8001
Email: sscanlon@colum.edu
Mailing Address:
Suzanne Scanlon
Department of English
Columbia College of Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
