{"id":13,"date":"2021-01-25T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2021-03-08T15:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T15:56:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Susan O\u2019Neill is the author of two books: the fiction collection&nbsp;<em>Don\u2019t Mean Nothing<\/em>&nbsp;(Ballantine Books, UMass Press and, currently, Serving House Books), and a slim volume of mostly-humorous short essays,&nbsp;<em>Calling New Delhi for Free<\/em>&nbsp;(Peace Corps Writers Books).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She co-edited&nbsp;<em>Vestal Review<\/em>, the oldest continuously-running journal for flash fiction, from its beginnings in 2000 until 2020, and has published stories and essays in a fair number of literary magazines, virtual and print. She was nominated for the Pushcart twice, in fiction and in non-fiction, was once listed as an&nbsp;<em>Honorable Mention in Best American Non-fiction<\/em>, and has come&nbsp;<em>this close<\/em>&nbsp;to winning a few prizes, the latest being a Michigan Review essay contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"672\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue-672x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue-768x1170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/sue.jpg 1331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan O\u2019Neill is the author of two books: the fiction collection&nbsp;Don\u2019t Mean Nothing&nbsp;(Ballantine Books, UMass Press and, currently, Serving House Books), and a slim volume&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/?page_id=13\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanoneill.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}