Susan Barba's first book Fair Sun was awarded the Anahit Literary Prize and the Minas & Kohar Tölöyan Prize. Her most recent, geode, was praised in the New York Times Magazine as “rich with shining interiors” and the Boston Globe said “it pulses with the blood of earth and stone.” Ms. Barba earned her PhD in comparative literature from Harvard University and is Senior Editor at New York Review Books.