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Suzanne Roberts' books include Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (Cherry Grove Collections, 2011), Shameless from Cherry Grove (November 2007), Nothing to You, which was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Zone 3 Book Award and the 2006 Blue Lynx Book Prize, from Pecan Grove Press (March 2008). A fourth poetry collection, Plotting Temporality, is forthcoming from Pecan Grove Press in the spring of 2012.
Suzanne's hiking memoir, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, is forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press.
Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many American and Canadian literary journals and anthologies, such as Smartish Pace, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, Poems & Plays, Fourth River, Spillway, The MacGuffin, National Geographic Traveler, Alligator Juniper, Atlanta Review, Gulf Stream, South American Explorers, and elsewhere.
Suzanne was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. Read her travel blogs on National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel and her photo essay on the Traveler website.
Suzanne is a two-time recipient of the McMillan and Randall Reid Creative Writing Awards from the University of Nevada Reno, and her poetry made finalist in Calyx Magazine's Lois Cranston Award, The River Styx International Poetry Award, The Marlboro Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Smartish Pace Erskine J. Poetry Prize. She won first prize in the Fourth River International Poetry Contest. She is also the recipient of the 2011 Eda Kriseova Fellowship in Prague.
Suzanne was born in New York to a British mother and Jewish father, and she was raised in Southern California. She holds degrees in biology and English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno. She currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California where she teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College, runs the visiting writers' series, and edits the journal The Kokanee.
She is currently serving as Distinguished Visiting Professor/Writer-in-Residence for the 2011-12 academic year at Sierra Nevada College, where she will be teaching poetry and travel writing classes, as well as acting as the advisory editor for the Sierra Nevada Review. She is also on the faculty for the low residency Creative Writing MFA program at Sierra Nevada College.
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