ABOUT SUZANNE
Suzanne Roberts is a 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), 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), and four collections of poetry.
Her work has been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, 1966, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, The Normal School, and Litro, as well as anthologized in The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Tahoe Blues, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, Poems Dead and Undead, and in two editions of Best Women's Travel Writing
Her work has been listed as "Notable" in Best American Essays and published in The New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, CNN, Longreads, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, 1966, River Teeth, Terrain, National Geographic Traveler, The Normal School, and Litro, as well as anthologized in The Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Tahoe Blues, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, Poems Dead and Undead, and in two editions of Best Women's Travel Writing
Suzanne was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic Traveler Magazine, and Bad Tourist was awarded a gold medal for Travel Essays from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, a bronze medal for Best Travel Book from the North American Travel Journalists Association, was a finalist in the Story Circle's "Gilda Awards" for Women's Humor, a bronze medal for the National Indie Excellence Awards in Travel, and a bronze medal for the Foreword Indie Awards in Travel.
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. Suzanne served as the El Dorado County Poet Laureate (2018-2020) and teaches for the low residency MFA program in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe. She currently splits her time between South Lake Tahoe, CA and a down-by-the-river van named Shrek.
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. Suzanne served as the El Dorado County Poet Laureate (2018-2020) and teaches for the low residency MFA program in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe. She currently splits her time between South Lake Tahoe, CA and a down-by-the-river van named Shrek.