Susan Gubernat’s second full-length poetry collection, The Zoo at Night, won the Prairie Schooner book award and was published in September 2017 by the University of Nebraska Press. Her first bookof poems, Flesh (Helicon Nine Editions), won the Marianne Moore Prize; the chapbook Analog House, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gargoyle, Michigan Quarterly, The Pinch, Prairie Schooner, and Pleiades,  among  others. An opera librettist, (Korczak’s Orphans, composer: Adam Silverman) she is Professor Emerita in the English Department of Cal State University, East Bay. Gubernat received her MFA in poetry from the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including artist’s grants from the states of New Jersey and New York. She has been an artist in residence at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, she currently lives in San Francisco.