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BiographySusan was born and raised in Chicago. 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) and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, including Ascent, Blackbird, Calyx, Crab Orchard Review, The North American Review, MARGIE, Nimrod, and Smartish Pace.She has also had work appear in many anthologies, including A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women's Poetry (Calyx Books) and On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa Press). Among her awards are the 7th Annual Oneiros Press Broadside Competition, The Poetry Center of Chicago's 14th Annual Juried Reading (third place), 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, a residency to the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, 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, and served on the Governor's Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission. |
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