Susan Thomas

Fiction Writer, Poet

New York, NY
New York US
Email: 
susanthomas1000@yahoo.com
Website: 
susanthomas1.com

Author's Bio

The language of imagination helps us track the unsayable, whose footsteps we must follow whether they exist or not. Poetry lives in that paradox. Exciting language is what transports us – shifting gears, asking questions, understating, overstating, reconciling opposites. It links distant things and includes us all in what we've been searching for – the unknowable.

Publications & Prizes

Fiction

Books:
Among Angelic Orders (Fomite, 2015)
,
The Empty Notebook Interrogates Itself (Fomite, 2012)
Journals:
American Letters & Commentary
,
Atlanta Review
,
Feminist Studies
,
Hunger Mountain
,
Kalliope
,
Margie
,
Midstream
,
Mississippi Review
,
Nimrod
,
Notre Dame Review
,
Paterson Literary Review
,
Poetry Miscellany
,
Potomac Review
,
Southern Humanities Review
,
Spoon River Poetry Review

Poetry

Anthologies:
Chance of A Ghost (Helicon Nine Editions, 2005)
,
The Poets Grimm (Story Line Press, 2003)
,
American Diaspora (University of Iowa Press, 2001)
,
Like Thunder (University of Iowa Press, 2001)
,
Essential Love (PoetWorks Press, 2000)
,
Food and Other Enemies (Essex Press, 2000)
Books:
Voice of the Empty Notebook (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
,
State of Blessed Gluttony (Red Hen Press, 2004)
,
The Hand Wave Goodbye (Main Street Rag, 2002)
Journals:
Margie
,
Mississippi Review
,
Sanskrit Review
Prizes won: 

The Benjamin Saltman Prize for STATE OF BLESSED GLUTTONY, The Iowa Poetry Prize for "The Empty Notebook", Ann Stanford Prize (USC) "Strolling Down the Via Negativa."

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
New York City
Raised in: 
New York City and Teaneck, NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: Feb 06, 2015