Susan Stinson - Belly Songs: in celebration of fat women

Selected Works

Novels

Martha Moody Twenty-fifth anniversary edition from Small Beer Press!

I can think of no-one who writes with more love, passion, and precision about the pleasures of the body and the pleasures of the soul, and that nebulous intersection of body and soul.-Elizabeth McCracken

Spider In a Tree

Small Beer Press
"Like Jonathan Edwards, Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." -Alison Bechdel

Venus of Chalk

Venus of Chalk is by turns tender and ruthless, dark and funny, haunting and starkly contemporary. In spare, eloquent prose Stinson mines depths most writers shy away from. This is one ride you won't want to miss. -- Alison Smith, author, Name All the Animals. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Or as a new ebook from Small Beer Press

Fat Girl Dances with Rocks

Susan Stinson's first novel is full of big, beautiful language and her main character, Char, is one of the best teenaged heroines I've ever met.-Judith Katz

Misc. Writing

Belly Songs

Poetry and personal essays about fatness. Now available at Book Moon Books!

Novel Excerpts

Three Excerpts from MARTHA MOODY

Link: Lavender Review

Anthology

The Letter Q

Letter to my young, queer self. As seen on The View.

Belly Songs: in celebration of fat women

Charcoal drawing of a fat woman with short hair tugging on the strap of a white slip. Chapbook cover

Charcoal drawing of Susan Stinson by Don Stinson

Belly Songs has been rare and hard to find for years, but now you can buy copies from Book Moon Books! Give them a call if you don't see it listed for online ordering. They do have copies and will ship nationally. This is a chapbook of poetry and lyric essays first published by Orogony Press (Janet Aalfs, Sally Bellerose and me). The cover art is by my brother, Don Stinson.