About me
Susan Rich is the author of six collections of poetry and co-editor of two prose anthologies. Recent books include Blue Atlas (Red Hen Press) and Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry). Along with Kelli Agodon, she co-edited Demystifying the Manuscript: Creating a Book of Poems (Two Sylvias Press) and with Brian Turner, she co-edited, The Strangest of Theatres: Poets Crossing Borders (McSweeney’s). Other books include Cloud Pharmacy, The Alchemist’s Kitchen, Cures Include Travel, and The Cartographer’s Tongue–Poems of the World, winner of the PEN USA Award and the Peace Corps Award. A winner of the Times Literary Supplement Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship, Rich's poems appear in the Harvard Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. A Bostonian by birth, she lives in the Pacific Northwest. Birdbrains: A Lyrical Guide to Washington State Birds is forthcoming this year from Raven Chronicles Press.
