Susan Celia Greenfield

Susan Celia Greenfield is a Professor of English literature at Fordham University. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, A Room of One’s Own, and online in Big Bridge.  Her online op-eds and essays can be found in CNN Opinion, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms. Magazine Blog , and PBS Need to Know. She is the author of many scholarly articles, a co-edited anthology called Inventing Maternity and a book entitled Mothering Daughters.  She has a twenty-three year old daughter and a nineteen year old son and lives with her husband in New York City, where they both bemoan their empty nest. An earlier version of “Swimming” was published in 2010 in Talon Online Magazine.