Susan Aizenberg is the author of three poetry collections: _Quiet City_ (BkMk Press 2015); _Muse_ (Crab Orchard Poetry Series 2002); and _Peru_ in _Take Three: 2/AGNI New Poets Series_ (Graywolf Press 1997) and co-editor with Erin Belieu of _The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women_ (Columbia University Press 2001). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including _The North American Review_, Ted Kooser’s _American Life in Poetry_ column, _Prairie Schooner_, _Blackbird_, _Connotation Press_, _Spillway_, _The Journal_, _Midwest Quarterly Review_, _Hunger Mountain_, _Alaska Quarterly Review_, and the _Philadelphia Inquirer_ and have been reprinted in several anthologies, among them _Ley Lines_ (Wilfrid Laurier UP) and _Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation_ (Etruscan). Her awards include a Crab Orchard Poetry Series Award, the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Levis Prize for _Muse_, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association, and a Glenna Luschei _Prairie Schooner_ award.