Novelist Susan Rebecca White Comes to Mercer 

A celebrated up-and-coming Southern novelist joins the Macon arts scene this week as Susan Rebecca White arrives on the Mercer campus to become Sams Distinguished Writer in Residence at Mercer University for 2017.

During her residency at Mercer from February 2 through March 17, Susan will offer two public events – a reading from her latest novel, A Place at the Table, on February 8 and a talk on fiction and Southern identity entitled “Your Place at the Table” on March 1. Both events will take place at 7 p.m. in the Medical School Auditorium (1220 College Street, Macon) on Mercer’s Macon campus. The events are free and open to the public. White will also teach a 400-level course in fiction writing.

White’s debut novel, Bound South, received wide critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize. Bound South was followed by A Soft Place to Land, also critically acclaimed and a Target “Club Pick.” Susan’s third novel, A Place at the Table, was a finalist for the 2014 Townsend Prize and a Target “Club Pick.” The American Booksellers Association included A Place at the Table on its “Indie Next List” and the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) selected A Place at the Table as a 2013 Summer “Okra Pick.”

White’s essays and nonfiction have been featured in The Huffington Post, Tin House, Salon, and The Bitter Southerner. She currently lives in her native Atlanta, where she has taught creative writing at Emory University and at SCAD Atlanta.