Susan Terris

Susan Terris's poetry books include Contrariwise (Time Being Books), Natural Defenses (Marsh Hawk Press), Fire Is Favorable to the Dreamer (Arctos Press), Poetic License (Adastra Press), Curved Space (La Jolla Poets Press), and Eye of the Holocaust (Arctos Press). Her work has appeared in Iowa Review, Field, Calyx, The Journal, Colorado Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Denver Quarterly, Southern California Anthology, and Ploughshares. With CB Follett, she is coeditor of an annual anthology, RUNES, A Review of Poetry. Her prize-winning chapbooks include Block Party (Pudding House Publications) and Marriage License (Pavement Saw Press). Among her many awards are the George Bogin Memorial Prize, from the Poetry Society of America, plus prizes from the Florida Review, Many Mountains Moving, Literal Latte, Salt Hill, Southern California Anthology, Spoon River, and the Faulkner/Wisdom Poetry Competition. She is also the winner of a Pushcart Award for her poem "Goldfish: A Diptych," published in Field.