Susan Tacent
Susan Tacent is a writer, scholar, and educator from Brooklyn, New York. Her fiction has appeared in Blackbird, DIAGRAM, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Tin House Online, Coolest American Stories 2022, Slice Magazine, and elsewhere; her criticism, interviews, and scholarly writing have appeared in The Common, Dostoevsky Studies, The Keats-Shelley Journal, and others. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has taught literature and creative writing at Oberlin College, Roger Williams University, LitArts RI, and elsewhere. She is writer-in-residence for Creature Conserve, and co-editor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, University of Minnesota Press, 2025. She lives with her human and more-than-human families in Rhode Island, US.