Susan Southard


Susan Southard is an American non-fiction writer. She won the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, for her book Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War.

Life

Southard graduated from Antioch University, Los Angeles, with an MFA in creative writing. She has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Lapham’s Quarterly.

Works