Susan Swartwout
Susan Swartwout teaches creative writing and publishing at Southeast Missouri State University and is the Publisher of Southeast Missouri State University Press which produces books and Big Muddy: Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, an interdisciplinary magazine. Her two collections of poetry are entitled Freaks and Uncommon Ground. She co-edited Real Things: Anthology of Popular Culture in American Poetry, Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita, Balancing on a Bootheel, and A Student’s Guide to Getting Published . Her poems and short stories are published in literary journals such as Nebraska Review, The Laurel Review, River Styx, Negative Capability, Mississippi Review, and Spoon River Poetry Review, among others. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award, the Dillinger Good Award, and St. Louis Poetry Center's Hanks Award.
© St. Louis Poetry Center 567 North & South, #8, St. Louis, MO 63130 Phone: 314-973-0616