Susan Aizenberg

Susan Aizenberg is the author of three collections of poetry and co-editor of an anthology of contemporary women’s poetry. Her newest collection, Quiet City,is forthcoming from BkMk Press in spring 2015. Her first full-length collection, Muse, won a Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award and was published in 2002 in Southern Illinois University Press’s Crab Orchard Poetry series.  Muse also received Virginia Commonwealth University’s Larry Levis Prize and the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry that same year. Her first, chapbook length, collection, Peru, appeared in Graywolf’s Take Three/2: AGNI New Poets Series. She is co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia UP 2001.)  Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Spillway, The Journal, and elsewhere. Aizenberg has received numerous Pushcart Prize nominations, a Nebraska Arts Council Distinguished Artist Fellowship and two Individual Artist Awards, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner award for poetry.  She is Professor of Creative Writing and English at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.

Susan Aizenberg, M.F.A.
Professor of Creative Writing & English
[email protected]
mfa.creighton.edu
Department of English
Creighton Hall # 130C
Creighton University
Omaha, Nebraska 68178
402-280-2823