Background
Severna Park was born as Suzanne Feldman in 1948 in the United States.
Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
Suzanne Feldman holds a Master of Arts in fiction from Johns Hopkins University.
1300 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217, United States
Suzanne Feldman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Severna Park was born as Suzanne Feldman in 1948 in the United States.
Suzanne Feldman holds a Master of Arts in fiction from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Severna Park writes science fiction and fantasy novels set in grim, high-tech future worlds and featuring lesbian characters struggling to gain freedom and a self of identity. In Speaking Dreams Park demonstrates her sure handling of both action and adventure and characters mired in moral dilemmas.
Her second novel, Hand of Prophecy, is set in the same universe as her first, where whole worlds are ruled by a succession of ruthless governments that enslave them. Frenna, the protagonist of Hand of Prophecy, inherits her people’s hard-won resignation to harsh realities of their lives. She must struggle to overcome this innate fatalism when she is taken from her family and injected with a virus that will keep her young for twenty years and then subject her to the Failing, massive cell failure that kills suddenly. Frenna manages to escape with three doses of the cure for the Failing, but is captured by another man determined to keep her as his sex slave. When she refuses him, he dumps her on a world where she must work as a medic for a team of gladiator-style fighters.
The third novel, The Annunciate is a story, reworking of the myth of Adam and Eve, set in a far future world where the races are divided according to their access to technologically enhanced biology. Here, the course of a civil war between the three castes in the triple-star system—the Jackless, the Jacked, and the Mesheds—is altered forever when Park’s protagonists return to the destroyed planet of Paradise and discover a new type of alien whose very existence renders the distinctions between the three castes moot.
In 2000 Park also published the book The Cure for Everything. The story follows Maria, an African albino woman who runs the Xingu Indian Assimilation Center with her boss Horace. Her most recent book is Absalom's Daughters, which she wrote in 2016. In the novel an interracial pair of teenage half sisters rattle through the segregated South in a jerry-rigged pickup they salvaged from the woods in rural Mississippi. They have a radio, a skillet and a Civil War-era gun, but no Green Book.
Currently, Severna Park works as a teacher in Maryland and writes mainstream fiction.
Severna Park lives with her partner.