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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, and a doctorate in Literature and the Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Suzanne is the author of three poetry collections, 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), and Plotting Temporality (forthcoming from Red Hen Press). 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. Her poem "The Falling Sky" was nominated this year by Poems and Plays for the Pushcart Prize.
Recently, Suzanne 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 is currently at work on another poetry manuscript, Almost Somewhere, comprised entirely of travel poems, as well as a memoir about hiking California's John Muir Trail.
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