Susan Katz, POLE DANCERS AT THE RED BARN: A Novel in Stories
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Pole Dancers at the Red Barn is a fierce and heartfelt novel in stories about people reinventing themselves through found family. At its center is the Red Barn, a no-nonsense pole-dancing venue where five women and one nonbinary performer turn the stage into a place of truth. Their performances captivate, but it’s what happens offstage—reckoning with their mothers’ choices, buried fears, and long-held silences—that drives the book’s emotional power. Each story reveals a fight against poverty, violence, or prejudice and the determination to build a life that means something, and is accompanied by one of Katz’s original photographs to act as an emotional touchstone.
“When I was fifteen, I imagined running away and becoming a stripper. What I really wanted was the Red Barn, a place where we can all be ourselves, speak and dance our truth, and be received not only without judgment but with joy. Susan Katz gives us a vision of a unique holy place where unconventional celebrants unite body and soul, ecstasy and wisdom.”—Elizabeth Cunningham,The Maeve Chronicles
Susan L. Katz is an alumna of the Writers’ Institute at the City University of New York and the New Directions Writing Program in Washington DC. Her stories have been published in the New Directions Journal of Fiction and Poetry. Susan is also a photographer; her photo essays are housed in the Museum of the City of New York, the Bronx Museum of Art, and the library of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. For forty years, Susan worked as a psychotherapist and published articles on human development, addiction, and group therapy techniques. She lives in Rhinebeck.
Martha Majsak has a MA in Creative Writing from Manhattanville College, attended the 2021 Community of Writers Summer Workshop and the 2019 Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She has also been published in Inkwell Magazine, won the Pinch Magazine Fiction award, and was given an Honorable Mention in the 47th New Millennium Writing Awards. She has been an English Professor and tutor for over 25 years.
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