Savannah Schroll Guz

Who is Savannah Schroll Guz?

Savannah Schroll Guz is an American fiction writer and art critic. She is author of the politically conscious fiction anthology American Soma.

Born in York, Pennsylvania in December 1974, she is the daughter of Marvin L. Schroll and Carol Ann Leib Schroll. She attended Juniata College, graduating summa cum laude in 1997. She then went on to study German Expressionism as a Fulbright Scholar in 1997-1998 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany. Here, she worked at the Neue Pinakothek for Alte Pinakothek Curator Dr. Konrad Renger, specialist in 17th-century Flemish painting. She also served as a correspondence translator for both General Director Dr. Johann Georg, Prince von Hohenzollern and for the Bavarian National Museum. She returned to the United States in July 1998 to study at the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned a Master's Degree in art history in 2000.

Guz began writing fiction in 2000, while working in public affairs at the [Smithsonian Institution]. By 2004, she released her first collection of short stories, The Famous & The Anonymous, and by 2005, she edited the theme-based fiction anthology, Consumed: Women on Excess. In 2004, she was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a storySouth Million Writers Award.