Susan Stoderl
- Mar 24, 2023
- 1 min
Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV
These poems were written for song a cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 21, 2023
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer
The Book of the Body of Policy was the first political treatise written by a woman c. 1407. It counsels the knights, noblemen, and common...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 17, 2023
- 1 min
From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)
During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 14, 2023
- 1 min
Christine de Pizan | Biographical Details of a Medieval Woman Writer’s Life and Learning
One characteristic of Christine de Pizan’s writing is the number of autobiographi-cal details she included in all of her various genres...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 10, 2023
- 2 min
Writer’s Life | Self-Promotion—Only One Word For It
YIKES! (That’s the nicest word I could think of.) Are you telling me I have to get out there and talk to people and collaborate with...