Susan Tichy

She received a B.A. from Goddard College and an M.A. from the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the MFA and undergraduate programs.[2] For five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics, and also served as poetry editor for the short-lived but gorgeously produced journal, "'Practice: New Writing + Art," based in the Bay area.

Her work has appeared in AGNI,[3] Beloit Poetry Journal,[4] Cerise Press, Colorado Review, Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review,[5] Ploughshares,[6] 42opus,[7] Runes, and other journals.

She also lives in the southern Colorado Rockies.

• 1982 National Poetry Series, for The Hands in Exile
• Eugene Kayden Award
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Chad Walsh Prize from Beloit Poetry Journal
• Indiana Review Prize for Poetry
• Runes Prize for Poetry
• Quarter After Eight Prize for Innovative Prose

• "VERSARI", Beltway Poetry Quarterly
• A Smell of Burning Starts the Day. Wesleyan University Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-8195-1154-6.
• The Hands in Exile. Random House. 1983. ISBN 978-0-394-52977-6.
• Bone Pagoda. Ahsahta Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-916272-91-3.
• Gallowglass. Ahsahta Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-934103-13-5.
• Trafficke. Ahsahta Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-934103-60-9.

In Bone Pagoda, Susan Tichy’s third full-length collection of poetry and her first in nearly 20 years, the poet explores the stark and horrifying realities of war and its aftermath through a fierce lyricism, an insistent and bodily music that urges the reader to say these poems aloud.[8]

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