About Rosie
Rosie Sultan
Massachusetts, United States
Rosie Sultan is the author of the novel Helen Keller In Love (Viking/Penguin), an American Library Association Book Club Pick. A PEN Discovery Award for Fiction winner and a recipient of a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellowship, she has taught writing at Boston University, Grub Street, Suffolk University and The University of Massachusetts.
Twitter Username: @RosieSultan1
Publications:
Fiction:
Helen Keller In Love, Viking/Penguin
Non-Fiction:
Good Housekeeping, The Huffington Post, The Drum Literary Magazine, Other Voices Literary Magazine; contributor to Truthtellers of the Times: Interviews with Contemporary Women Poets, Oxford Readers’ Companion to Dickens.
Awards:
Pen Discovery Award for Fiction
American Library Association Book Club Honoree
Artist’s Residency Fellowship, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
University of Massachusetts Fiction Award
University of Massachusetts Book Prize in Literature
Employment:
Senior Lecturer, English Department, Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts
Lecturer, The Writing Program, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Instructor, Grub Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Creative Writing Instructor, The University of Massachusetts, Boston
Presentations/Speaking Experience:
The Boston Public Library
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
The Muse and The Marketplace
The American Association of University Women
The Women’s National Book Association
The National Writers Union
Degrees:
Bachelor of Arts in English, The University of Massachusetts
Masters in Fine Arts in Literature and Writing, Goddard College
Genres of Interest:
Fiction, Historical fiction, Creative non-fiction
