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.
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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
Latest Essay Published at Brevity Blog
Time is flying by! We're turning the corner to fall, but I am still trying to keep up with my vegetable garden--I have been overrun with beans! Somehow it's already been over a week since this essay of mine appeared at The Brevity Blog, a truly amazing online journal...
Upcoming In-Person Classes!
I hope you've all had refreshing summers, despite the brutal heat waves in many areas, including where I am in the mid-Atlantic region. But fall is here and it can be a wonderful time of year to re-set your writing intentions and schedules. I am happy to be...
As Gun Violence Awareness Month draws to a close…
Photo courtesy of Mary Sobczak. There's always lots going on in June in the gun violence prevention movement as we head outdoors and into the streets to raise awareness of the toll that gun violence takes in the United States every day -- an average of 120 lives and...