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Susan Ashley Michael
novelist, writer, poet
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Susan Ashley Michael has completed a novel LOVE IN THE PIAZZA. She is also the author of TOYS IN THE SAND. She earned a B.A. in English and a Masters Degree. She studied at Oxford University, Cambridge University and Harvard University--where she took classes with Gregory Maguire, Katherine Paterson, Julius Lester, Tim O'Brien, and John Updike. At the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she workshopped her novel LOVE IN THE PIAZZA 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 Screenwriting with Dyann Rivkin. In 1989-1990 she served as a Commonwealth of Massachusetts Lucretia Crocker Fellow. She taught English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, as well as "Edit Your Writing" at Southcoast Learning Center, New Bedford, MA. Her novel has been edited by the distinguished free-lance editors and authors Joy Johannessen and Robert Michael. She has lived in Northampton and Dartmouth, MA; Sarasota, FL; Murfreesboro, TN; as well as Paris, Budapest, Prague, Torino and Venice. She is a member of H-Film, H-Italy, H-Travel, H-Art.
Interests
- man ray,
- death in venice,
- escher,
- haifa,
- silk road,
- san marco,
- my life as a dog,
- max ernst,
- st. marks,
- marais,
- rear window,
- john ruskin,
- thomas mann,
- colette,
- baci,
- père lachaise,
- tintoretto,
- marco polo,
- gino paoli,
- san martino,
- giorgione,
- giotto,
- peggy guggenheim,
- vaporetto,
- st. martin,
- tchaikowsky,
- acqua alta,
- jo goldenberg's,
- victor noir,
- memory palace,
- marquesa luisa casati,
- marini,
- les deux magots,
- héloise and abélard,
- venice lord byron
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