Biography
Sue Fagalde Lick is the author of sixteen published books including:
Childlessness: Childless by Marriage, Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both
Poetry: The Widow at the Piano , Gravel Road Ahead, Blue Chip Stamp Guitar, Dining Al Fresco with My Dog
Novels: Up Beaver Creek, Seal Rock Sound, Between the Bridges, Azorean Dreams
Portuguese Americans: Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, The Iberian Americans
Life on the Oregon coast: Unleashed in Oregon: Best from the Blog, Shoes Full of Sand
Memoir (most recent): No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer’s—Click here for a full digital media kit:
Short stuff:
Blogs: Childless by Marriage and Unleashed in Oregon
Substack: “Can I Do It Alone?”
“I Live Alone,” Brevity Magazine, September, 2025
Her poems, essays, and articles have been published in many print and online markets. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction and won first prize in Willamette Writers’ Kay Snow Awards for poetry.
In addition to her writing, Sue sings and plays guitar, piano, and mandolin, performing at various local venues and serving as a music minister at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Waldport, Oregon.
A native of San Jose, California, she earned her BA in journalism at San Jose State University and worked at numerous community and special-interest newspapers before becoming a full-time freelancer. She earned her MFA in creative writing at Antioch University, Los Angeles in 2003 and has taught workshops in article-writing, creative writing, poetry, and publishing at Oregon Coast Community College, Chemeketa Community College, online, and at meetings and conferences across the country.
A former president of the Silicon Valley Branch of California Writers Club, Writers on the Edge, and Oregon Poetry Association, Sue is co-founder of the Central Oregon Coast chapter of Willamette Writers.
Sue lives in South Beach, Oregon.
Amazon Author Central link: https://www.amazon.com/author/suelick
Recently Recorded events you can listen to:
Reading with Sher Swartz of “Spring Rain on the Cherry Orchard” from the anthology The Grace of Oregon Rain Sept. 22, 2024
Interview with Susie Carter Smith at Love Conquers Alz
Interview with Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women for the launch of No Way Out of This
Interview with AlzAuthors‘ Marianne Sciucco
All Home Care Matters interview about AlzAuthors and No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer’s
Salem Poetry Project—poetry and music
Alzheimers Speaks Interview with Lori LaBey
Recent publications:
“After Disneyland,” “Guitar Hands,” and “Parade,” Triggerfish Critical Review #30, July 2023
“Last Day Salad” and “Ripe,” Last Leaves Magazine, Spring 2023, p. 144 and 145
“Blood,” Christian Feminism Today, Feb. 13, 2023
Blackberry Peach Poetry Prizes 2022. As a winner, my poems “Life Sentence,” “Hospice,” “American Primitive” and “Sorrow in Every Bed” are published in this volume put out by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies
“Charlie’s Dinner” and “I’ll Have a Burger with a Side of Coronavirus,” Sage Soup, May 2021
“I Don’t Want to Play,” Brevity Nonfiction Blog, March 18, 2021
“Dry Bones” was published in Better Than Starbucks, Feb. 2021
“Finders Keepers in the Time of COVID-19” featured at the Poetry Super Highway, Sept. 21-27
“Biscuits and Gravy,” Fewer Than 500, April 26, 2020
“Ironing the Undershirts,” Good Old Days, March/April 2020
“Meet Me at the Big Guy’s Diner,” Dine anthology by Hippocampus, published Feb. 2020
Essay “When You Can’t Even Get Drunk” published in Persimmon Tree, Spring 2019
Contact
281 SE 97th Ct., South Beach, OR 97366
(541) 961-4561, sufalick@gmail.com
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