NHBF Author: Susan Donovan Bernhard

Susan Donovan Bernhard is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship recipient, a graduate of the GrubStreet Novel Incubator, and a 2019 Tennessee Williams Scholar to the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her fiction has appeared in Little Bird Stories and Solstice Lit Mag and she is a contributor to Cognoscenti and the blog Dead Darlings. Her debut novel WINTER LOON was an Amazon Bestseller and won the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Prize for Fiction. A dual citizen of the United States and Ireland, Susan was born and raised in the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana, is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and lives and writes in Massachusetts. WESTERLY is her second novel.

This author is scheduled to appear at the NH Book Festival which will be held at the Capitol Center for the Arts & NHBF Festival Village on South Main Street in Concord, NH on October 2-3, 2026.