Susan Cheever

“Women’s currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.”–Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever, born July 31, 1943, is well-known for her biographies and memoirs, including Home Before Dark, in which she writes about her family. Much like her father, John Cheever, she suffered from a substance abuse problem. Now in recovery, Cheever uses her past struggles with substance abuse and sex addiction to inform several meaningful memoirs and essays. From Henry David Thoreau, to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Margret Fuller Cheever has authored many biographies. Aside from nonfiction, she also has several novels published, including Doctors and Women and The Cage. Cheever has several essays in which she talks about women’s issues, including “Baby Battle,” that appeared in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars. She currently teaches in the MFA program at Bennington College and at The New School. Cheever has two children, a son and a daughter.

Susan Chreever’s works include:

• a poet’s life: ee cummings, 2014
• Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, 2008
• As Good As I could Be, 2002
• Home Before Dark, 1999
• Treetops, 1999
• Doctors and Women, 1987
• The Cage, 1982

Susan Cheever’s awards include:

• L. L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1985
• National Book Critic’s Circle Award nominee
• Boston Globe’s Winship Medal winner, 1985
• New York Public Library Literary Lion, 1984
• Guggenheim fellow, 1984
• Associated Press award winner
• Part of the Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning, 1979

The Editors

Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.