Sue Repko
author, teacher, book coach, freelance editor
About
Sue Repko is a writer, teacher, book coach, and freelance editor. She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, a master’s in city and regional planning from Rutgers University, and a B.A. in psychology from Princeton University. Her essays have been named notable three times in The Best American Essays and won a Maine Literary Award for short nonfiction.
These days, she is on Substack at Letting Go/Holding On, teach in person and online, and available for consults on essays, memoir excerpts, and book-length projects.
Her work appears most recently at The Manifest Station, Project Write Now, the Brevity Blog and MicroLit Almanac. Other essays can be found in The Independent, Hippocampus Magazine, Hazlitt, The Common, Princeton Alumni Weekly, and elsewhere.
To follow Sue or see where she’s teaching next, check out this Linktree.
When she’s not writing, reading, or teaching, she can be found on a hiking trail or, during the growing season, in her vegetable garden.
If you would like to learn more about working with Sue, please get in touch here.
Latest Posts
Virtual Class on Revision Begins March 31
Do you have an essay or memoir excerpt (up to 1,500 words) that you would like to get submission-ready? Check out my upcoming 3-week class for revision online with Project Write Now. Sign up here. Description from PWN website: Ready, Set, Revise! Transform essays from...
Craft Essay: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers
My craft essay, "Flash Memoir: Using Markers of Time and Place to Ground Readers," follows below. It first appeared (and still appears!) at the Project Write Now blog. I have been teaching for Project Write Now since the fall of 2024. It is an amazing ten-year-old...
A Micro-Memoir: Going to the dentist now… and then
Warning: This micro-memoir piece mentions gun violence and suicide. If you are in crisis or need to talk to someone, please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988. Over the course of any given day, the memory switch in my mind will get flipped on. If I'm in the...
