OUR STORY
Susan Konig is the founder and president of Willow Street Press, an independent imprint. Willow Street consults on manuscripts, curates publishing projects, and offers promotional support on book launches.
Susan is the author of a bestselling, critically acclaimed family humor series. Her first book Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children) was called "hilarious, brilliant and downright Bombeckian" by USA Today. Her follow-up I Wear the Maternity Pants in This Family was described as “a witty collection of motherhood tales in the great tradition of Erma Bombeck” by Publishers Weekly. The books have been optioned twice for sitcom development.
Her book Teenagers & Toddlers Are Trying to Kill Me! was the #1 Mother’s Day Parade Pick in Parade magazine: “Surviving parenthood is never so funny as when Susan Konig tells tales of the joyful chaos that is life with her four children.”
For two years Susan co-hosted a live national daily radio show on SiriusXM.
She has been a staff writer and columnist for The Washington Post Style section, Seventeen magazine, Catholic Digest, National Review, and the New York Post. Her articles and essays have appeared in many national publications including Ladies' Home Journal, Travel & Leisure, First for Women, Reader’s Digest and Parade.
She graduated from Georgetown University, earned a master's in Literature from New York University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She teaches writing at as an adjunct assistant professior in the CUNY system.