I'm standing under a boardwalk at the New Jersey shore. I refer to this photograph in my memoir, "Love Sick."

My official second-grade class photo. I'm really left-handed, but the photographer wouldn't take my picture until I put the crayon in my right hand. This photo is on the cover of "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You."

Me with my family at the opening of my father's bank when we first moved to New Jersey from the West Indies.

I used to love those photo booths, where you get five photos for a quarter.

When I was still in college, I spent summers as an intern working on Capitol Hill. Here I am with fellow interns and Senator Ernest Gruening.

At my desk when I worked on Capitol Hill in my early twenties.

This is me in Washington, D. C., too.

In Galveston, Texas, I worked on a historic preservation project. I was in charge of photography as well as writing the newsletter for the Galveston Historical Foundation.

Me in Galveston.

Right after I graduated from college, I spent about five months working on a kibbutz in Israel--picking apricots.

Me with paratrooper in Israel.

President Truman with my father.

Me, with Pat Boone. My forthcoming book (March, 2014) is entitled "The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew."

My home.

My home office

With my first cat, Quizzle, who makes an "appearance" in both of my memoirs.

I teach in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. This is part of the campus.

College Hall, at VCFA

Me, getting ready for a lecture, VCFA

Creative Nonfiction workshop, with Robert Vivian and me. He's sitting to my left.

Robert Vivian, me, Pamela Cooper, Connie May Fowler, and Rigoberto Gonzalez. Fourth of July at VCFA!

Robert Vivian and me, VCFA summer residency

Richard McCann, Matthew Dickman and me, VCFA residency. Waiting for a reading to start.

Me, getting ready for workshop, VCFA

Richard McCann and me, VCFA summer residency

David Wojahn, Trine Dalton, Connie May Fowler and me, VCFA graduation

With students at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

A few years ago I received an Honorary Doctorate from Aquinas College.

My two new kitties: Bijou and Siobahn.

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December 17, 2012

Please enjoy these photographs until I get my blog up and running.

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MY BOOKS

CRAFT of WRITING
This is a guidebook about how to craft compelling art out of personal experience. "Fearless Confessions" is for beginning and experienced writers alike, who want to write their own life stories. Please click title to see the Table of Contents.
MEMOIRS
"A deeply personal story of a woman's addiction to and recovery from the high of dangerous encounters. This utterly candid account is the only memoir by a woman to examine sexual addiction. It is a powerful, often lyrical book with strong resonance for other addictions, whether to food, drugs, alcohol, or work--for anyone whose only satisfaction is now." (Click on title, above, to read excerpt.)
Winner of the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Creative Nonfiction
"A harrowing memoir of the mute language of incest and the powerful words of survival."(Click on title, above, to read excerpt.)
POETRY
Please click on title to read selected poems. "Silverman's collection is a bracing debut--rangy, restless, giddy with lush particulars." ~~ David Wojahn
SHORT WORKS
This short article, first published in "The Writer's Chronicle," is included in the Appendix of Sue's book, "Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir."
Sue's Reading List

QUICK LINKS

Please read my essay, "Fans," which appears in a special issue of brevity.com focusing on the important contribution of women writers in the creative nonfiction movement.
Please read a review of "Love Sick" on booklerner.blogspot.
Please read review of "Fearless Confessions" on brevity.com.
PIF Magazine
Read an interview with Sue, about writing, on PIF Magazine, one of the oldest on-line journals.
Read a review of "Love Sick" on women's memoirs.com.
Read Sue's essay "Third Eye" on ducts.org.
Read a review of "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You" at women's memoirs.com.
Interview with Sue and review of "Fearless Confessions" on Story Circle Book Review website.
Read Sue's article, "In Defense of Memoir: Once More into the Fray," on the brevity.com blog site.
Book review of "Love Sick" at recoveryworld.com.
Read an interview with Sue, about "Fearless Confessions," on Writing it Real.com.
Read interview with Sue at the National Association of Memoir Writers website.
Please listen to a podcast of Sue talking about writing on Write Now.
Read a review of "Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You"
Listen to an interview with Sue about writing a memoir, at Women's Memoirs.com
Read a review on "venuszine" that compares the movie "Love Sick" with Sue's memoir "Love Sick."
Read a review of Love Sick on the Women Writers website.
Read Sue's interview about memoir writing at www.writingitreal.com.
Read Sue's craft article on the use of voice in creative nonfiction on "Brevity.com."
Read a book review of "Love Sick" on the Metapsychology On-Line Book Store.
Please read Sue's essay, "We Regret to Inform You," on Defunct Magazine
Read Sue's short essay "Archipelago," published on "Brevity.com."
Read an interview with Sue about spirituality in the Grand Rapids Press.
Read Sue's article on Numero Cinq: "The Courage to Write and Publish Your Story: 5 Reasons Why it's Important to Write Memoir
Please click here to hear Sue's interview on Psych Journey Audio Book Club. She discusses her second memoir Love Sick: One Woman's Journey Through Sexual Addiction.
Here's a podcast of Sue's interview "All About Sexual Addiction" on Lisa.FM, Leading Edge Talk.
"Write the Book" POD interview with Sue, conducted by Shelagh Shapiro.
Please click here to hear Sue's interview on Psych Journey Audio Book Club. She discusses her first memoir Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You.