Susan Tekulve's short fiction collection, My Mother's War Stories, was published by Winnow Press (Austin, Texas). Her nonfiction, stories and poems have appeared in Shenandoah, New Letters, Best New Writing 2007, The Indiana Review, Denver Quarterly, Puerto del Sol, Prairie Schooner, New Letters, Beloit Fiction Journal, Crab Orchard Review, The Literary Review, Webdelsol, Black Warrior Review and The Kansas City Star. She has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. An associate professor of English at Converse College in South Carolina, she is completing a novel.