Susan Harlan is a writer based in Winston-Salem, NC, who is particularly interested in the relationship between place, memory, and objects. Her essays have appeared in publications including The Guardian US, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, Roads & Kingdoms, Racked, The Morning News, Curbed, The Common, Literary Hub, The Bitter Southerner, The Brooklyn Quarterly, and Public Books.

Susan writes about feminist issues for venues such as Jezebel, The Toast, DAME, The South Carolina Review, The Belladonna, Queen Mob's Tea House, and The Hairpin. She also writes satire for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Avidly, Janice, and The Billfold.

She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from New York University and an M.A. in early modern English theater history from King’s College London, and she teaches at Wake Forest University. She has given talks about death culture and the life of objects at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, the New York Public Library, and the American Library in Paris. Her book Luggage was published in the Bloomsbury series Object Lessons in March 2018. And her book Decorating a Room of One's Own, a humorous mash-up of home design reportage and literary homes based on her column for The Toast, was published by Abrams in October 2018. She is obsessed with her house, which has been featured on Apartment Therapy and HGTV.com.

Representation: Mariah Stovall, Trellis Literary Management