Susan Aizenberg is the author of three full-length poetry collections: A Walk with Frank O’Hara (University of New Mexico Press Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series 2024), Quiet City (BkMk Press 2015), and Muse (Crab Orchard Poetry Series 2002). Her awards include a Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award, the VCU Levis Reading Prize, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Book Award in Poetry, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award and the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association. Aizenberg also is the author of First Light, a fine arts letterpress collection of 11 poems with original linocuts by artist Kevin Bowman (Gibraltar Editions 2020) and Peru, a chapbook-length collection included in the volume Take Three: 2/AGNI New Poets Series (Graywolf Press 1997), and co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women(Columbia University Press 2001). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, among them The Slowdown, On the Seawall, Plume, The Summerset Review, Nine Mile, Cultural Daily, Hole in the Head Review, Blackbird, The Night Heron Barks, Bosque, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry, and The Journal, and have been reprinted or are forthcoming in several anthologies, most recently in Poetry Goes to the Movies (Pacific Coast Poetry Series, 2025). Aizenberg was for many years Poetry Editor of The Nebraska Review, served as Poetry Editor for Numero Cinq, and is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing and English at Creighton University. She now lives, writes, and from time to time teaches online and in-person workshops for Larksong Writers Place, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and elsewhere, in Iowa City. She can be reached at her website susanaizenberg.com