ABOUT SUZANNE
Suzanne Roberts is a Lake Tahoe-based travel writer, memoirist, and poet. Her books include the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award-winning Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Bison Books, 2012; new edition, 2023), the award-winning memoir in travel essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), an award-winning collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (University of Nebraska Press, 2022; Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay), and four collections of poetry.
Her work has been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, and The Normal School, among others, as well as many anthologies, including Best Women's Travel Writing
Her work has been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Ploughshares, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, and The Normal School, among others, as well as many anthologies, including Best Women's Travel Writing
Suzanne was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler.
Suzanne is a dual American-British citizen and 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 served as the El Dorado County Poet Laureate (2018-2020) and offers individual writing coaching, manuscript evaluation & editing packages, and in-person and virtual workshops. She also sends out a weekly newsletter with a themed writing prompt every week.
She teaches for the low residency MFA program at UNR-Tahoe and lives with her husband in South Lake Tahoe, California, where she's working on a novel and a craft book, 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, 2026) as well as another collection of essays.
Suzanne is a dual American-British citizen and 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 served as the El Dorado County Poet Laureate (2018-2020) and offers individual writing coaching, manuscript evaluation & editing packages, and in-person and virtual workshops. She also sends out a weekly newsletter with a themed writing prompt every week.
She teaches for the low residency MFA program at UNR-Tahoe and lives with her husband in South Lake Tahoe, California, where she's working on a novel and a craft book, 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer (forthcoming from the University of Nebraska Press, 2026) as well as another collection of essays.
