Fall of Lisa Bellow (Perabo) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—January 6, 1969
• Where—St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Education—M.F.A., University of Arkansas
• Currently—lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania


Susan Perabo is an American author of novels and short stories. Her novels include The Fall of Lisa Bellow (2017) and The Broken Places (2001). She has published two collections of short stories, Why They Run the Way They Do (2016), and Who I Was Supposed to Be (1999).

Her fiction has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize Stories, and New Stories from the South, and has appeared in numerous magazines, including One Story, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, and The Sun.

Perabo holds an MFA from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and is Writer in Residence and Professor of English at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She is also on the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program at Queens University. (Adapted from the publisher.)