Susan Lang

Susan Lang is the author of The Sawtooth Complex, as well as a trilogy of novels about a woman homesteading in the southwestern wilderness during the years 1929 to 1941: Small Rocks Rising, Juniper Blue and Moon Lily. The first novel in the trilogy, Small Rocks Rising, won the 2003 Willa Award, and her latest novel, The Sawtooth Complex was awarded a 2008 Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts as a novel-in-progress. Lang’s short stories and poems have been published in magazines such as Idaho Review, Red Rock Review, Iris, Alligator Juniper and The Raven Review. Now Faculty Emeritus, she taught Creative Writing for more than twenty years at Yavapai College, where she founded and directed both the Southwest Writers Series and Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing Conference. Lang has taught at major literary venues such as the Taos Summer Writer's Conference, ASU's Desert Nights Rising Stars Writer's Conference, Western Literature Association Conference, and the Tucson Festival of Books.