Susan Daitch is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. In 1996 David Foster Wallace called her "one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today."On the back cover of Daitch’s Storytown: “These are fine and moving stories about the death of meaning, about persons trying to decode the seas of signals in which they float and drown, failing. Their flaw is their triumph: they try—and so the stories are also about courage, that most tragic of virtues. This is an important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.”
Early life and education Susan Daitch was born in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Barnard College and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
Career She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories.
Her work has appeared in Guernica, Bomb, Pacific Review, The Barcelona Review, Fault Magazine, Rain Taxi, Tablet, Tin House, McSweeney's, Conjunctions, The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction, and elsewhere.
Her novel Siege of Comedians was listed as one of the best books of 2021 in The Wall Street Journal.
She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
A 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she is a supporter of Women for Afghan Women.
Bibliography L.C. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987; Dalkey Archive Press, 2002 The Colorist. Vintage Contemporaries, 1990 Storytown: Stories. Dalkey Archive Press, 1996 Paper Conspiracies. City Lights Books, 2011 Fall Out. Madras Press, 2013 The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. City Lights Books, 2016 White Lead: A Novel of Suspense. Alibi, 2016 (e-book) Siege of Comedians. Dzanc Books, 2021 The Adjudicator. Green City Books, 2025
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External links Official site