Susan Aizenberg

Susan Aizenberg is the author of three full-length poetry collections: A Walk with Frank O’Hara and Other Poems (forthcoming August 2024 from University of New Mexico Press in the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) Quiet City (BkMk Press 2015) and Muse (Crab Orchard Poetry Series 2002). Aizenberg is also the author of First Light, a fine arts letterpress collection of 11 poems with original linocuts by artist Kevin Bowman (Gibraltar Editions 2020) and Peru in Take Three: 2/AGNI New Poets Series(Graywolf Press 1997), and co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press 2001). Her awards include a Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award, the VCU Levis Reading Prize, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Book Award, and the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, among them  On the Seawall, Plume, ABQinPrint, Pratik,TheSummerset Review, Nine Mile, Cultural Daily, Hole in the Head Review, Blackbird, The Night Heron Barks, Bosque, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Connotation Press, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and The Journal, and have been reprinted and are forthcoming in several anthologies, most recently In The Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, forthcoming Feb 2024) and A Constellation of Kisses (Terrapin Press 2019). Aizenberg is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing and English at Creighton University and now lives and writes in Iowa City, where she teaches in the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.