Susan S. Levine is a practicing psychoanalyst, clinical social worker, and writing consultant. She is the author of Useful Servants (1996) and Loving Psychoanalysis (2009)  —  a finalist for the Gradiva Award for best clinical book  —  as well as the editor of Dignity Matters (2018), to which she contributed an essay on Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Since 2020, she has published eight short stories and two satire pieces. She recently began using literary workshop techniques to teach clinical writing and was awarded the 2024 Teacher of the Year Award at her psychoanalytic institute. She has also served on editorial boards of professional Journals. Levine’s collection of fourteen linked stories, Subject Lessons, will be published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2027. Learn more about her at  SusanSLevine.com.