Suzanne Wise is a writer of poetry and prose, and she also draws comics. Her most recent collection of writing is the poetry chapbook The Book of Space (Tammy, 2021). Her performance of an adapted excerpt from The Book of Space is featured in a short film, produced by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. Her other books include the poetry collection The Kingdom of the Subjunctive (Alice James Books), as well as the chapbooks Talking Cure (Red Glass Books) and The Blur Model (Belladonna*).

Suzanne’s poems have also been published in several anthologies and dozens of journals, including American Letters and Commentary, The Bennington Review, Boston Review, Bomb, EOAGH, Fence, Green Mountains Review, Interim, Pierogi Press, Ploughshares, and Tikkun. Her comics have appeared in Action, Spectacle.

Suzanne has been awarded residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, Millay Arts, and Yaddo, among other places. She has been invited to read and discuss her work at graduate and undergraduate writing programs across the country, including Barnard College, Columbia University, Syracuse University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Maine, the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Wisconsin.

Among her many jobs, Suzanne has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan, Middlebury College, Pratt Institute, and Poets House. She has also worked as a culture writer, critic, arts administrator, grant writer, and copywriter. Her essays and reviews about art and poetry have been published by ArtNews, Modern Painters, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, and Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century (Wesleyan University Press, edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell).

Suzanne can be found working with pens, pencils, and electronic devices in Brooklyn, New York. She invites you to contact her at suzmwise@gmail.com.