"Her poems are masterful and develop daring wisdom...." - Anita K. Boyle, Judge "From the land of small towns, undertakers, 'burnt-out stars' and 'chrome-dented light,' Elbe makes a generous poetry that is both elegy and ode to the treasured and forgotten." - Dorianne Laux "To read Elbe’s poems is to discover not only what it means to be in love, but what it means to be alive." - Jesse Lee Kercheval
Author
Susan Elbe is the author two full-length poetry collections, The Map of What Happened, which won the 2012 Backwaters Press prize, and Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Poetry) which received Honorable Mention for the Posner Poetry Book Prize, and two chapbooks, Where Good Swimmers Drown (Concrete Wolf Press), which won the Concrete Wolf Press Chapbook Prize, and Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals, including Ascent, Blackbird, Nimrod, North American Review, OCHO, Diode, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill, and Smartish Pace. Among her awards are the 2006 Lorine Niedecker Award, the Calyx Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, The Poetry Center of Chicago 14th Annual Juried Reading, and residencies to the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
