Granzella, Sue: - Sue Granzella is a writer and a long-time public school teacher in the East Bay of San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in over forty journals and anthologies, including Masters Review, Full Grown People, Hippocampus, and Ascent. She has been recognized as Notable in Best American Essays and has won the Naomi Rodden Essay Award, a Memoirs Ink contest, multiple awards in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition, and runner-up for Teachers and Writers' Bechtel Prize. Pushed to the Edge: Teachers' Stories from the Culture Wars (The New Press) is her first book.