Susan Li is a writer from New York City. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and swamp pink.

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”Exterminations” is beautifully rendered and brilliantly structured. With glittering clarity, the writer captures multiple forms of grief: the grief of emerging into an understanding of what the world is capable of, the grief of watching an addiction, the grief of losing a brother, the complicated grief that comes with freedom from particular familial roles or expectations. The ants that open and close the piece create a resonance and underscore the slippery sense of time that brings both reader and writer to a place simultaneously familiar and strange.

—Danielle Evans, on “Exterminations“

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Honors

♥︎ Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2025
♥︎ Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Scholarship, DISQUIET, 2024
♥︎ Finalist, DISQUIET Prize for Nonfiction, 2024
♥︎ Best Essay & Runner-up Overall, The Georgia Review Prose Prize, 2024
♥︎ Finalist, The Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest, 2023
♥︎ Honorable Mention, Gulf Coast Barthelme Prize, 2023

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