The Susi Q

Susi Q Presents An Evening With an Author
Featuring Novelist Michelle Huneven

About Michelle Huneven
Michelle Huneven is a writing teacher at UCLA and author of the novels Round Rock, Jamesland, Off Course, and Blame, a New York Times Notable Book and finalist for the Los Angeles Times and the National Book Critics Circle Awards. She is the recipient of a James Beard award for feature writing with recipes, a Whiting Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Huneven’s fifth novel, Search, follows Dana Potowski, a restaurant critic and author who is struggling to come up with her next book idea. As a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation, she is asked to join the church’s search committee to help select a new minister. Dana makes the search more exciting and fruitful by secretly writing a memoir with recipes all about the process.

Marrie Stone is a freelance writer and podcaster. Her fiction and essays have appeared or been accepted for publication in Reed Magazine, the Writer's Journal, River Oak Review, Into the Void, Coffin Bell, The Rambler, The Write Launch, and also in Orange Coast Magazine and various online blogs. She hosts the weekly podcast Writers on Writing, where she has interviewed more than 600 writers, poets, and literary agents. You can learn about her work in her VoyageLA profile.

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