Susanna Lang

Susanna Lang, an American poet, was born in New York and raised in college towns where her father taught in Kansas, Michigan and Connecticut. She now lives with her husband and son in Chicago, where she is a literacy coach in the Chicago Public Schools. In addition to teaching public school teachers and early adolescents, she offers poetry workshops in public libraries throughout the Chicago metropolitan region. Her first collection of poems, Even Now, was published in 2008 by The Backwaters Press. A chapbook from Finishing Line Press, Two by Two, was released in October 2011. She has published original poems and essays, and translations from the French, in such journals as Little Star, New Letters, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The Green Mountains Review, The Baltimore Review, Kalliope, Southern Poetry Review, World Literature Today, Chicago Review, New Directions, and Jubilat. She won a 1999 Illinois Arts Council Award for a poem published in The Spoon River Poetry Review. Book publications include translations of Words in Stone and The Origin of Language, both by Yves Bonnefoy. Her book, Tracing the Lines, was a finalist for the 2011 Brick Road Poetry Award and has recently been published by Brick Road Poetry Press.