Suzanne Solomon

Suzanne (she/they/iel) is a HUM Visiting Research Fellow in Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, specialising in crime fiction. Suzanne was born in Miami, Florida, obtained a juris doctor from the University of Florida, and, after a successful career as a legal editor and writer (both staff and freelance) in New York, moved to Norwich in September of 2019 to pursue a PhD in creative-critical writing at the University of East Anglia. Suzanne's stories have been published in the anthologies Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers, New Jersey Noir, Jewish Noir and other collections and crime fiction magazines in print and online. Their thesis is an intersectional feminist re-examination of the femme fatale figure in US and UK noir fiction and a novel entitled THE CONFIDENCE, exploring through the lens of crime fiction how patriarchy shapes the women we become. Suzanne was awarded the UEA American Library Scholarship for 2020-21 and 2021-22.