Suzanne Manizza Roszak
Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA Columbia University; MA Yale University; MFA University of California, Irvine; PhD Yale University
Research Areas: Children's literature, childhood studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, popular fiction, the lyric essay, poetry and fiction writing
Suzanne Manizza Roszak is a multi-genre creative writer and a comparative literature scholar specializing in children's literary studies, diasporic and anti-colonial literatures, and popular genres including historical fiction, "women's fiction," and the modern and contemporary Gothic. Her poetry collection Sicilianas won the Bordighera Poetry Prize and was first finalist for the North American Poetry Book Award. Her novel The Poison Girl, a contemporary gothic retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2024. Her creative nonfiction, short fiction, and poetry have appeared in literary magazines including ANMLY, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, The Journal, Ninth Letter, ROOM, and Third Coast.
Manizza Roszak is also the author of three monographs in literary studies, including, most recently, They Also Write for Kids: Cross-Writing, Activism, and Children’s Literature (University of Mississippi Press 2023). Her research has been supported by grants from the Dutch Research Council, the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research, and the Children’s Literature Association. She has previously taught at Occidental College, California State University San Bernardino, East Carolina University, and the University of Groningen. She currently serves as the managing editor of Seneca Review.