Suzanne Ondrus

Suzanne Ondrus'  first book, Passion Seeds, won the 2013 Vernice Quebodeaux Pathways Poetry Prize for Women and was published by Little Red Tree Publishing (2014). Her chapbook Death of an Unvirtuous Woman came out October, 2022 from Finishing Line Press; it is about domestic violence and domestic homicide concerning a real German immigrant couple from 1881 in Ohio. She won the 2013 Reed Magazine Markham Poetry Prize (May 2014 issue) and was also the runner-up for the Little Red Tree 2013 International Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Slab, Long River Review, Frigg, Colere, JENDA, the LaLorna Anthology, Through a Distant Lens: Travel Poems, and the Romanian journal Nazar Look, Bohemia, Route7, CV2, and Long River Review. Her recent work is in Visitant, S/tick and New Square.  Her critical reviews of poetry books are published in Pleiades, Gently Read Literature, and Review Revue.She is a poet whose work explores cultural identity, language and the drama of the human condition. Language and cultural immersion shape Suzanne’s artistic vision; she has lived in Russia, Benin, Uganda, Italy and Germany. She was a 2018-2020 Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso in West Africa. Suzanne received her Ph.D in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut, with focus on African women’s epistolary. She holds an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University (OH), an M.A. from Binghamton University (NY) and B.A. from Wells College (NY).  She does diversity, equity, and inclusion, nonviolent communication and gender equity trainings.