Susan Fox Rogers Wins the 2025 Harvard Review Chapbook Prize
Professor Susan F. Rogers.
Visiting Associate Professor of Writing Susan Fox Rogers has been awarded the Harvard Review Chapbook Prize for 2025. The prize is awarded every two years to works of nonfiction, including travel, memoir, and reportage, that are between 15,000 and 30,000 words. Rogers’s essay, “Guivi,” is about family secrets, following the posthumous letters of a reserved mother and their consequences. Rogers is currently working on a mystery novel set at a birding club in the Hudson Valley.
This year’s judge was Jerald Walker, who is a professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College. Walker describes Rogers as “a master essayist who also happens to have a few secrets of her own” and the essay as “a spellbinding study in humankind’s complexity.” “I savored every page, and yet somehow I was still unprepared for the cumulative power those pages would yield,” he writes.
Post Date: 07-15-2025
This year’s judge was Jerald Walker, who is a professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College. Walker describes Rogers as “a master essayist who also happens to have a few secrets of her own” and the essay as “a spellbinding study in humankind’s complexity.” “I savored every page, and yet somehow I was still unprepared for the cumulative power those pages would yield,” he writes.
Post Date: 07-15-2025