Suzanne Cleary

Poet

Peekskill, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

I teach as core faculty of the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse College.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (Codhill Press, 2013)
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Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011 (Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
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Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press, 2009)
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From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009)
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The Best American Poetry 2009 (Scribner, 2009)
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House, 2005)
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Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2005)
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Being Alive (Bloodaxe Books, 2004)
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Poetry 180 (Random House, 2003)
Books:
Crude Angel (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2018)
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Beauty Mark (BkMk Press-UMKC, 2013)
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Trick Pear (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
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Blue Cloth (Hill-Stead Museum, 2004)
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Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
Journals:
Agenda
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Atlanta Review
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Atlantic Monthly
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Margie
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Ohio Review
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Poetry London
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Theodate
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Prizes won: 

.Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, for BEAUTY MARK

.2012 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, for BEAUTY MARK (BkMk Press 2013)

.2012 Emerging Writers Fellowship in Poetry, from the Writer's Center, Bethesda, MD

Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry (2nd place) from Nimrod International Journal

.Pushcart Prize

.Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, of PSA

.New Letters Poetry Prize

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Binghamton
Raised in: 
Binghamton, NY
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Last update: Dec 05, 2018