Deirdre Sugiuchi is an assistant editor at The Rumpus, a contributing writer at Electric Literature, and a former public school librarian. Her essays and excerpts have been featured in Action, Spectacle, Literary Hub, Midwest Review, Salon, the anthology Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church, and other places. Sugiuchi has been awarded residencies at the Albee Foundation, the Hambidge Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Wildacres. She is a recipient of the Key West Writers Seminar Teacher and Librarian Award, the Mark Austin Segura Award for Nonfiction, and a Barbara Deming Memorial grant for feminist creative nonfiction. She recently completed her reform school memoir, Unreformed: A Captivity Narrative, which was a finalist in the 2025 International Creative Nonfiction Competition hosted by Vine Leaves Press. She is currently exploring the history of white supremacist violence in a project called Two Mississippi. Sugiuchi co-founded and curated the New Town Revue, a music and literature series which she led for eight years in partnership with Avid Bookshop. She lives in Athens, Georgia with her husband and dog.
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