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Suzanne Roberts was born in New York to a British mother and Jewish father; she was raised in Southern California, and she earned degrees in Biology and English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California. She is a doctoral candidate in Literature and the Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her dissertation The EcoGothic: Pastoral Ideologies and the Gendered Gothic Landscape uses pastoral ideologies and contemporary ecofeminist theory to explore the connections between women and nature in the Gothic works of Ann Radcliffe, the Brontës, and Emily Dickinson. She will be defending her dissertation in August 2008.
Suzanne is the author of two poetry collections, Shameless from Cherry Grove (November 2007), and 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). Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many American and Canadian literary journals and anthologies, such as Smartish Pace, ZYZZYVA, Eclipse, Undercurrents, Spillway, The MacGuffin, Gulf Stream, South American Explorers, and elsewhere.
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. Recently, she was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. Read her travel blogs on National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel about her trip to China and Mongolia with Travcoa and Traveler's editor-in-cheif, Keith Bellows.
Suzanne currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California where she teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and runs a successful Writers' Series. She is the recipient of the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award.
Suzanne has just completed another poetry manuscript, Plotting Temporality, and is currently at work on another, Almost Somewhere, comprised entirely of travel poems, as well as a memoir about hiking California's John Muir Trail. |