Susan Tiberghien Prize for Narrative Nonfiction

Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She has published four memoirs, Looking for Gold: One Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center: A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer; Side by Side: Writing Your Love Story; and Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman. She has also written a highly regarded writing book, One Year to a Writing Life: Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft. Her numerous narrative essays have appeared in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Ms. Tiberghien teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences both in the States and in Europe. In 1993, she founded the Geneva Writers’ Group, which she continues to direct and where she teaches monthly workshops. She is the founding editor of their literary review, Offshoots: Writing from Geneva. Since 1998, she has directed the biennial Geneva Writers’ Conference. In Paris, she has taught at the Paris Writers’ Workshop and given workshops at Shakespeare and Company, Village Voice, and the American Library. She has also given workshops in Brussels, Luxembourg, Basel, and Bern. She is a founding member of the International Writers’ Residence at the Château de Lavigny. In recognition of her tireless effort to create meaningful networking and learning opportunities for expatriate English-language writers, and in honor of her many contributions as a past board member and longtime workshop leader, The International Women’s Writing Guild is pleased to present the Susan Tiberghien Prize for Narrative Nonfiction.

Country of Publication

United States