About

Deborah H. Sussman is a writer and editor based in Tempe, Arizona. She has taught creative writing at the University of Virginia and Phoenix College, and developed and taught a course in writing design and art criticism at Arizona State University. Through Changing Hands Bookstore, she co-teaches the long-running workshop Mothers Who Write. She has reviewed books for the Washington Post and art for Art in America, and she is a contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books’ blog.

Deborah speaks in schools and at conferences about the life and legacy of her father, Peter M. Sussman, who was born in Berlin and survived the Nazi concentration camps. She was a featured speaker for “Flipping the Script,” a program of the Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights, in 2021, and organized a 2019 reading by children of Holocaust survivors at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Deborah earned an MA in English/Creative Writing from Hollins University and an MFA in Fiction from the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her undergraduate degree, in Comparative Literature, is from Smith College.