Biography

Susan was born in Chicago and raised on the south side in Brighton Park. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently lives in Madison working as a Webmaster for the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority.

She's the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press, 2007) and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Ascent, Blackbird, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, The North American Review, MARGIE, Nimrod, and Smartish Pace.

Among her awards are the 7th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Competition, The Poetry Center of Chicago's 14th Annual Juried Reading, the CALYX inaugural Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Council for Wisconsin Writers' 2006 Lorine Niedecker Award. She has received a Rowland Foundation residency to the Vermont Studio Center and two residencies to Edenfred in Madison, Wisconsin sponsored by the Terry Family Foundation.

She's currently on the Board of, and serving as webmaster for, the Council for Wisconsin Writers. She was also recently appointed to a four-year term on the Governor's Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission.