About
Sue Hertz is the author of Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling (Sage/CQ Press) and Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line (Simon & Schuster). An associate professor of English and nonfiction writing at the University of New Hampshire, she teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate writing programs. Hertz has published essays and stories in numerous national and regional publications, including Redbook, House Beautiful, Walking, New England Monthly Magazine, Boston Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Parenting. Before she began the double life of teacher-writer, she was a feature writer for The Hartford Courant, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The Herald in Everett, Washington. Her passion is long-form nonfiction.
Featured Work
Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling
Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling helps writers cultivate their nonfiction storytelling skills by exploring the universal decisions writers confront when crafting factual narratives. Rather than isolating various forms of narrative nonfiction into categories or genres, Sue Hertz focuses on examining the common choices all true storytellers encounter, whether they are writing memoir, literary journalism, personal essays, or travel stories. Write Choices also includes digital storytelling. No longer confined to paper, today's narrative nonfiction writers must learn to write for electronic media, which may also demand photos, videos, and/or audio. Integrating not only her own insights and experience as a journalist, nonfiction book author, and writing instructor, but also those of other established nonfiction storytellers, both print and digital, Hertz aims to guide emerging writers through key decisions to tell the best story possible. Blending how-to instruction with illuminating examples and commentaries drawn from original interviews with master storytellers, Write Choices is a valuable resource for all nonfiction writers, from memoirists to essayists to literary journalists, at any stage of their career.
Other Works
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Caught in the Crossfire: A Year on Abortion's Front Line
1989-90