Susan Hartman
www.susanhartman.net
EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University
Writing Division, School of the Arts, 1976
New York, N.Y.
Bachelor of Arts, Kirkland College
Major: Creative Writing and Literature, 1974
Clinton, New York
WRITING Journalism
EXPERIENCE
The New York Times
Magazine length cover stories and profiles; features
about urban life and pop culture; photo essays
1988—
Cover stories have followed a young Guatemalan doctor starting his internship at a troubled city hospital; a soldier and his wife struggling to reunite after his deployment to Afghanistan; and a group of resilient young women, first profiled for The Times when they were talented double-Dutch jumpers on a dangerous Brooklyn block
Recent projects: http://www.susanhartman.net/newprojects8.html
Selected assignments:
http://www.susanhartman.net/assignments1.html
City of Refugees
An ongoing project documenting three remarkable refugee families as they adapt to an old American manufacturing city; based on Hartman’s New York Times cover story, A New Life for Refugees, and the City They Adopted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/11/nyregion/a-new-life-for-refugees-and-the-city-they-adopted.html?_r=0;
City of Refugees project: http://www.susanhartman.net/city_refugees/index.html
Newsday
Cover stories and profiles; op/ed pieces; travel and food features; developed L.I. Moment, a weekly column
1993--2001
The Christian Science Monitor
Features about New Yorkers and their communities; personal essays on urban life and race; profiles
1987--2008
Poetry
Books: Lost Orchard, an anthology, SUNY Press, 2014
El Abogado, Vache Press, 1983
Satyr, Cross Cultural Communications, 1980
Dumb Show, University Presses of Florida, 1979
Literary Journals: The Florida Review, Carolina Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Sun Dog, Hanging Loose, City, Poem, Kansas Quarterly, The Florida Review, Eddy
Multi-Media Projects
Solace on the Line: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Collaborated on a multi-media exhibit with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Todd Heisler; the show focused on Ghanaian live-in aides—far from their homes in the Bronx—who are united through a conference prayer call;
sponsored by The New York Times
2013
http://susanhartman.net/solace/index.html
Solace on the Line photo essay:
http://www.susanhartman.net/assignment_pix/ghanaian.pdf
Jump Rope Girls: Directed a multi-media project documenting the lives of three remarkable women, first written about by Hartman for The New York Times when they were 10-year-old jumpers on her Brooklyn block. The team included Magnum photographer, Peter van Agtmael, and five other award winning photographers and videographers.
2008-2011
Destiny’s Sweet Sixteen: Directed a short documentary about Elbe Vasquez, who gave birth to her daughter, Destiny, at 15.
Savannah: Directed a short documentary that followed Peachie Navarro and her radiant 10-year-old daughter, Savannah, on the day of her First Communion.
Back On the Block: Co-wrote and narrated a New York Times video; a personal take on the double Dutch girls.
The Jump Rope Girls project has been presented at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, at the Brooklyn Public Library, and at colleges and museums.
http://www.susanhartman.net/jumprope.html
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE Yale University
Morse Fellow
Residential College Seminar Program
Course: Feature Writing Workshop, 2016
English Department
Course: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay, 2017
New York University
School of Professional Studies
Adjunct Associate Professor
Humanities, Arts, and Writing
2007--present
Courses: Creative Nonfiction,
Feature Writing for Print and Digital Media, Art of the Photo Essay, Interviews and Profiles
Course Innovations: Team teaching a photo essay class with documentary photographers; bringing students to sites for hands-on reporting; bringing Pulitzer Prize winning reporters like Michael Winerip and N.R. Kleinfield--as well as professional boxers--into the classroom.
Received NYU SPS Award for Teaching Excellence, 2013
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Instructor
Courses: Art of the Photo Essay, The Book Project
2010--2014
RELATED
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE External Advisor, Digital Humanities Initiative
Hamilton College
Board member of humanities research institute; advisor to Hamilton students and faculty working on documentary projects
Clinton, N.Y.
2013-
The Newswomen’s Club of New York
Member of 95-year-old professional organization
for women journalists
New York, N.Y.
2016--
Director, powerHouse Sundays
Curated and hosted monthly series
of writers and photographers;
powerHouse Arena, Dumbo, Brooklyn
2010--2013
Chair, Kirkland Mentoring Group
Led a group of alumnae--bankers, lawyers, writers, and entrepreneurs--who provided mentoring to female students and graduates of Hamilton College
Clinton, N.Y.
2008--2011