RIBNER, Susan

Adjunct Lecturer
Office / Office Hour: 1436 HW
(212) 772-5780
sribner@aol.com

Susan Ribner has been teaching in the Hunter English Department since 1991. She received an MA in Comparative Government (Sino-Soviet) from Cornell University in 1965, an MA in TESOL from Hunter in 1991, and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of New Orleans/Prague Summer Seminars in 2004. Ms. Ribner has published numerous articles on women’s history, children’s literature, and the martial arts, and has co-authored two nonfiction young adult books, The Martial Arts (Harper & Row) and Right On! An Anthology of Black Literature (the latter under the pseudonym Rebecca Moon). She is currently completing Sister Stories: A Memoir, selections of which have been published in Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, and the anthologies Essay 33: Non-Fiction Reflections Upon the Self and Society, ed. Anna Tomasino, and Voices from the Couch, ed. Robie Darche Wiesner. Memoir selections were also finalists in the Iowa Review Creative Nonfiction Contests of 2005 and 2006. Ms. Ribner was the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship for a residency at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in 2006. Finally, with her colleague Ron Grant, Susan Ribner created the unique Gribner Nonfiction Manuscript Workshops (www.Gribner.com), which are taught annually at the Prague Summer Program (www.praguesummer.come) and other venues in the United States.

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