Sue Ribner has taught writing at the City University of New York (CUNY)
for twenty-one years and is currently teaching Creative Nonfiction—Memoir
and the Personal Essay—at both Hunter College and a Poets & Writers-funded
program in New York City. She and her colleague Ron Grant have created the unique
Gribner workshops (run in Oregon and Michigan in 2005, and Prague in 2006-2009)—a
creative-nonfiction manuscript peer review workshop—which will be offered
again at the Prague Summer Program in July 2010. Published widely in the nonfiction
field, her books include the young adult The Martial Arts, and under the pseudonym
Rebecca Moon, Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature. She is currently
completing Sister Stories: A Memoir, excerpts of which have been published in
Essay 33: Non-Fiction Reflections Upon the Self and Society, the Jewish Women’s
Literary Annual, and Wordriver Literary Journal. Two excerpts have also been finalists in the Iowa Review Creative
Nonfiction Contests of 2005 and 2006. She was the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship for a residency at the Anderson Carter in Redwing, Minnesota, August 2006. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction
in 2004 from the University of New Orleans/Prague Summer Seminars, and also has
an M.A. in TESOL (Hunter College) and an M.A. in Comparative Government (Cornell
University).
