Suzanne Rivecca's fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009, among other publications.  A winner of the Pushcart Prize and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she lives in San Francisco.

"Suzanne Rivecca is a wonderfully lively and fearless new writer."  Lorrie Moore  "The intensity of thought and feeling in Suzanne Rivecca's stories is remarkable.  These stories start with a tone of comic rage and then rise through various compounded feelings experienced at a 'furnace-bright center' toward confrontations of a sort that seem quite new in contemporary American fiction.  The stories are brilliant, funny, and scary.  This book is a major achievement."  Charles Baxter  "Suzanne Rivecca's narrators are fierce and fiercely unhappy, uncompromising, self-sabotaging, tender, lonely, and witheringly funny.  They're almost never willing to let themselves off the hook, and each never ceases to worry that her heart might be too small for all that it has to do.  These are beautifully shaped and smart and moving stories."  Jim Shepard  "The stories in Suzanne Rivecca's Death Is Not An Option are wonderfully full of all sorts of tension--sexual, religious, intergenerational, interspecies--but they're also marvelously written, animated by the author's bold wit, her linguistic energy, her deep, profound empathy for her entertainingly (but not necessarily ruinously) screwed up characters.  An unforgettable debut." Brock Clark  "I was astonished and transported by the stories in this collection which are simultaneously hilariously funny and sharply, sometimes painfully, perceptive.  I stayed up reading them late into the night because I did not want to put them down and I thought about them for a long time after I finished the last one.  I think about them still."  Emily Mitchell  "With exquisite patience and piercing insight, Suzanne Rivecca illuminates the dangerous dance between victims and saviors.  Death Is Not an Option delivers us to the edge of grief, that precarious place where the moral compass spins--where codes of love and law and religion fail.  Mercy here depends on a tiger's sublime grace, our capacity to resist deeper harm, and the right of every broken being to remain silent."  Melanie Rae Thon