Susan Parr is the author of Pacific Shooter, awarded the Lena-Miles Wever Todd prize from Pleiades Press. Her work is anthologized in The Best American Poetry series and in Alive at the Center: Poetry from the Pacific Northwest (Ooligan Press, 2013).
Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, she was educated at Barnard College in New York City, earning honors in Russian Studies. She has an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Washington, where she received an Academy of American Poets Prize and the MacLeod-Grobe Prize. She was also honored to be chosen as a Strange Coupling fellow via the University of Washington Fine Arts program. Her poems have appeared in such journals as DIAGRAM, PageBoy, The Seattle Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, POETRY magazine, and in bar-code format distributed across Seattle galleries as part of the collective installation, NEPO 5K Don't Run. Her new manuscript, DEVERA, was a finalist for the 2022 (17th) Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (Waywiser Press). Contact her at sparr75 (at) yahoo (dot) com. |