Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many American and Canadian literary journals and anthologies, such as Smartish Pace, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, Poems & Plays, Fourth River, Spillway, The MacGuffin, National Geographic Traveler, Alligator Juniper, Atlanta Review, Gulf Stream, South American Explorers, and elsewhere.Suzanne was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and she is a two-time recipient of the McMillan and Randall Reid Creative Writing Awards from the University of Nevada Reno; 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. She is also the recipient of the 2011 Eda Kriseova Nonfiction Fellowship in Prague.Suzanne holds degrees in biology and English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno. She currently teaches English at Lake Tahoe Community College and for the low residency MFA in creative writing at Sierra Nevada College.
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