Susanna J. Mishler

Where:
AnchorageGenre(s):
poetry, essaysJob(s):
electrician

Email:
rubbletop@gmail.com

Favorite Places in Alaska:
Anywhere above treeline

Bio:
Susanna J. Mishler was awarded first place in the Poetry Open of the Universityof Alaska/Anchorage Daily News Statewide Writing Contest in 2001 and the winning poem was published on LitSite Alaska. Since then, her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, RATTLE and elsewhere. In 2004 she received an MFA in Poetry from The University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also served as an editor for Sonora Review. She teaches workshops at the 49 Alaska Writing Center.

A collection of poems, titled Termination Dust, is forthcoming from Boreal
Books/Red Hen Press in January 2014.