Susan Cheever and Peter Trachtenberg

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC VIRTUALLY | Susan Cheever’s most recent book Drinking in America, a look at American History through the lens of alcoholism, was published in October, 2016 and was long listed for a PEN nonfiction award in 2017. Her most recent biography, E.E. Cummings: A Poet's Life, was published in February 2014. Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography, was published in the fall of 2010 and a previous book on the American transcendentalists, American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work was published in 2006. She has published seven other books of nonfiction and five novels. Her short work has appeared in dozens of publications and anthologies including The New Yorker and The New York Times, and as a weekly column in Newsday where she contributed to coverage that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 after the crash of TWA Flight 800. She has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship medal and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a member of the Authors Guild Council and the board of the Yaddo Corporation. Cheever took a B.A. from Brown and has taught at Yale, Brown University, The New School, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

Peter Trachtenberg is the author of 7 Tattoos, The Book of Calamities, and Another Insane Devotion, a 2012 New York Times Editors' Choice. His essays, journalism, and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, A Public Space, Bidoun, The New York Times's travel magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Story Quarterly. His honors include the Whiting Award, the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at Yaddo and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. He is an Associate Professor in the Writing Program of the University of Pittsburgh. Trachtenberg is a former publisher of ScoundrelTime (www.scoundreltime.com), an online literary journal of resistance. He is currently at work on The Last Artists in New York, a book of nonfiction that will be published by Black Sparrow in 2023.