Susan Berardi wrote Mothers in Arms based on her 4,000-word feature article, “Police killed their sons…,” published in The Guardian in Aug. 2021 and nominated for the 2022 International Online Journalism Awards. She’s had an editorial in The New York Times, and her essays and short stories have been published in The Carolina Quarterly, The Galway Review in Ireland, Broad River Review, Watershed Review, and Jewish Light Magazine.
She was a visiting lecturer for William Jewell College, Missouri, to discuss the book and teach on “The Discourse of Self-Defense.” She has also guest-lectured at the University of Illinois. In 2019, Susan gave the commencement address for the University of Illinois Dept. of Communication.
She has an MFA in Nonfiction and Fiction from Pacific University in Portland, Oregon, and an MA from the University of Illinois.
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The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker, winner of the 2022 Unpublished season (Mystery/Thriller), released March 2025 from Hawkeye.
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