We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com (essay, "Love Me, Love My Guns") (2003) Dog Is My Co-Pilot: Great Writers on the World's Oldest Friendship (essay, "Brave and Noble Is the Preschool Dog") (2003) Some of My Best Friends: Writers on Interracial Friendships (essay, "Cartilage") (2004) Little Women (afterword) (2004) Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves (essay, "The Belly Unbuttoned") (2005) I Married My Mother-in-law And Other Tales of In-laws We Can't Live With - And Can't Live Without (essay, "A Family You Can't Divorce") (2006) Inlandia: A Literary Journey Through California's Inland Empire (introduction) (2006) Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave (essay, "Reckless") (July 2007) The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concertgoing Experience (essay, "The Funk Festival at Los Angeles Coliseum, Los Angeles, May 26, 1979") (2007) References External links Essays by Susan Straight at Salon Creative Writing & Writing for the Performing Arts Master's degree program at UC-Riverside Straight's Introduction to the Inlandia anthology The UMass MFA Program for Poets & Writers Karen Grigsby Bates, "Author Susan Straight Takes Us 'In The Country Of Women'", NPR, January 29, 2020. 1960 births Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American women novelists Edgar Award winners Writers from Riverside, California University of California, Riverside faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni Riverside City College alumni 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers