Mecca - Susan Straight

Straight, Susan: - Susan Straight is the author of several novels, including the national bestseller Highwire Moon , a finalist for the National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the memoir In the Country of Women , named a best book of 2019 by NPR and Real Simple . She is the recipient of the Edgar Award for Best Short Story, the O. Henry Prize, the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Granta, Harper's , and elsewhere. She was born and continues to live in Riverside, California, with her family, where she serves as Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.