Susan Rosegrant

Susan Rosegrant is a Lecturer IV at the University of Michigan's Residential College (RC), teaching narrative journalism; creative non-fiction, including memoir and personal essay; and creative writing. She heads the RC's First-Year Seminar Program, whose courses fulfill the university's first-year writing requirement. She is also an academic advisor at the RC. Rosegrant is the co-author of two books: Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World’s Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, and Route 128: Lessons from Boston’s High-Tech Community. She has worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, Business Week magazine in Boston, and as a freelance writer. From 1993 to 2007, she was a case writer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, writing cases on such topics as international negotiation, emergency response, and the evolving world of international trade. While earning her degree from the Residential College in the early 1970s, she won First Prize for Fiction in the Hopwood Awards for Underclass students. She later earned an MA in Journalism from Stanford University. Rosegrant is currently working on a range of writing projects, and, in her spare time, goes birding; she has identified more than 130 species of birds in her Ypsilanti backyard.