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Suzanne Roberts is the author of three poetry collections, Shameless from Cherry Grove (November 2007), Nothing to You, which was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Zone 3 Book Award and the 2006 Blue Lynx Book Prize, from Pecan Grove Press (March 2008), and Plotting Temporality (forthcoming from Red Hen Press). Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many American and Canadian literary journals and anthologies, such as Smartish Pace, ZYZZYVA, Eclipse, Undercurrents, Spillway, The MacGuffin, National Geographic Traveler, Fourth River, Atlanta Review, Gulf Stream, South American Explorers, and elsewhere.
Suzanne is a two-time recipient of the McMillan and Randall Reid Creative Writing Awards from the University of Nevada Reno, and her poetry made finalist in Calyx Magazine's Lois Cranston Award, The River Styx International Poetry Award, The Marlboro Magazine Poetry Prize, and the Smartish Pace Erskine J. Poetry Prize. She won first prize in the Fourth River International Poetry Contest. Her poem "The Falling Sky" was nominated by Poems and Plays for the Pushcart Prize.
Recently, Suzanne was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. Read her travel blogs on National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel and her photo essay on the Traveler website about her trip to China and Mongolia with Travcoa and Traveler's editor-in-cheif, Keith Bellows.
Suzanne holds degrees in biology and creative writing and a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno. She currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California where she teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and runs a successful Writers' Series. She is the recipient of the NISOD Excellence in Teaching Award.
Suzanne has just completed another poetry manuscript, Three Hours to Burn a Body and Other Travel Poems, as well as a memoir entitled Almost Somwhere: 28 Days on the John Muir Trail about hiking California's John Muir Trail. In addition, Suzanne is co-editing Carve: An Anthology of Ski and Snowboard Poems, Essays, and Stories.
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