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Susan Power

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Born

in Chicago, The United States

Website

https://www.monasusanpower.com/

Genre

Fiction, Creative Non Fiction

Member Since

February 2014

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Susan Power, now publishing under the name "Mona Susan Power," is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna Dakhóta). She was born and raised in Chicago. She earned her bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a JD from Harvard Law School. She decided to become a writer, starting her career by earning an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Her fellowships include an Iowa Arts Fellowship, James Michener Fellowship, Radcliffe Bunting Institute Fellowship, Princeton Hodder Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship, and Native Arts & Cultures Foundation Fellowship.
She resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Her newest novel is A Council of Dolls (forthcoming in August 2023 from Mariner/HarperColl ...more

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Susan Power liked Briana R.'s review of A Council of Dolls: "Hauntingly poignant, everything you want in a story from the writing, the ancient wisdom, magic, the at times cold unfiltered reality blending into childlike rumination that reminds me of my time as a child. This story will stay with me for a while. " Read more of this review »
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Susan Power liked Steven Armijo's review of A Council of Dolls: "I enjoyed Ms. Power's storytelling. Reading about Native American historical trauma is difficult and heartbreaking, but necessary for healing. Powerful book. "
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“She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.”
― Susan Power, The Grass Dancer

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“Because I have willed it. And I am not a fairy tale.”
― Susan Power, The Grass Dancer

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“A permanent dull ache spread from my belly to my chest. I thought I could feel pinpricks of loneliness in the pads of my fingers, taste it in the back of my mouth. Clara Miller must have been lonely too, longing to be touched. One day as she sat before her metal tub filled to the rim with sweet corn, she reached behind her head and unpinned her silver hair. It tumbled down her back like creamy lace cloak. She hiked her skirts to her knees and I could see she had removed her stockings. Her legs were heavy and milk white, solid as columns. She hiked her skirts higher, until they bunched in her lap.

When I kissed the back of her neck she quivered, like the dying peasant I’d shot and killed a week before. Her silver hair smelled like smoke. Clara and I tangled together like the bale of wire resting beside the unrepaired chicken coop. We were shameless, falling to the ground, wading into the creek, making our way to her bed.”
― Susan Power, The Grass Dancer

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