Susan Ashley Michael
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer, Photographer |
| Location | MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE, United States |
| Introduction | Susan Ashley Michael is the author of CROSSING THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS. She earned a B.A. in English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Masters in Education. At the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she participated in writing workshops with Amy Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Maria Flook, Margot Livesy, and Michael Klein. She also studied poetry with former Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins and in 2012 was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by vox poetica. She taught English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, as well as "Edit Your Writing" at Southcoast Learning Center, New Bedford, MA. She has lives in Murfreesboro, TN. She is co-founder of the Murfreesboro Writers Group, a member of AWP, as well as H-Film, H-Italy, H-Travel, H-Art. |
| Interests | Writing, Photography, Classic, Indie and Foreign Films, Books, Travel, Screenplays, Theater |
| Favorite movies | Wings of Desire, The Third Man, The Lives of Others, Cinema Paradiso, Rear Window, It Happened One Night, Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou,Casablanca, Annie Hall, Bread and Tulips, The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| Favorite music | Pavarotti, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Taj Mahal, James Taylor, Richard Thompson, Nina Simone, David Gray |
| Favorite books | Stephen King's On Writing, Middlesex, Fugitive Pieces, She's Come Undone, Art and Lies, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Pride and Prejudice, all Michael Ondaatje, Elizabeth Berg, Elinor Lipman, Kate Atkinson, Charles Simic, Adrienne Rich, Billy Collins |