A versatile writer and editor specializing in travel, books, arts, profiles, personal essays, and longform narrative nonfiction.
2020 Best Criticism Green Eyeshade Award; 2017 Best Travel Writing Green Eyeshade Award; Best Documentary Feature, Southeastern Emmy Award; editor of more than a dozen award-winning features.
Published in LA Review of Books, Rolling Stone, the Guardian, Time Out, WebMD, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta magazine, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Creative Loafing, Gettysburg Review.
Author of Moon Puerto Rico, 5th edition, Hachette
Former director of the Decatur Writers Studio, a year-round community education nonprofit
Suzanne Van Atten 