About Susan Rich
Susan Rich is the author of six books of poetry including Blue Atlas (forthcoming from Red Hen Press), Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry), Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press), shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue, winner of the PEN USA Award. Along with Brian Turner and Ila Kaminsky, she co-edited The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders (McSweeney’s) and most recently, Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for Creating a Book of Poems (Two Sylvias Press), co-edited with Kelli Russell Agodon. She has received awards and fellowships from CityArtists, 4Culture, the Fulbright Foundation, Peace Corps Writers, PEN USA, and The Times Literary Supplement (London). Susan Rich is the author of six books of poetry including Blue Atlas (forthcoming from Red Hen Press), Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry), Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press), shortlisted for the Julie Suk Award, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, named a finalist for the Foreword Prize and the Washington State Book Award, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue, winner of the PEN USA Award. Along with Brian Turner and Ila Kaminsky, she co-edited The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Writing Across Borders (McSweeney’s) and most recently, Demystifying the Manuscript: Essays and Interviews for Creating a Book of Poems (Two Sylvias Press), co-edited with Kelli Russell Agodon. She has received awards and fellowships from CityArtists, 4Culture, the Fulbright Foundation, Peace Corps Writers, PEN USA, and The Times Literary Supplement (London). For more information, visit her website.
