Susan Wheeler

Susan Wheeler (born July 16, 1955) is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies. She is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Princeton University. She has also taught at University of Iowa, NYU, Rutgers, Columbia University and The New School.

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• Susan wheeler
• Awards and honors
• Works
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Wheeler was born in Pittsburgh and grew up throughout Minnesota and New England. She received a BA from Bennington College in 1977 and pursued graduate studies in art history at the University of Chicago between 1979 and 1981.

Wheeler was the first example of an Elliptical Poet described by Stephen Burt in his creation of the term in 1998. and expanded upon in an eponymous essay in American Letters & Commentary. Her work is also referred to in Jed Rasula's Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry.

Awards and honors

1978-79 Vermont Council of the Arts grantee

1987 Grolier award for poetry

1988 Prize for Poetry, Roberts Foundation

1990 Fund for Poetry grantee

1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow (1993–95, 1997–99)

1994 Norma Farber First Book Award, Bag o' Diamonds

1994 Pushcart Prize, Bag o' Diamonds

1999 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow

2000 Pushcart Prize, Bag o' Diamonds

2012 National Book Award (Poetry), finalist, Meme

Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry series in these editions: 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997, 2003, 2005.

Works

Bag o' Diamonds (poetry), University of Georgia Press, 1993

Smokes (poetry), Four Way Books, 1998

Source Codes (poetry), Salt, 2001

Ledger (poetry), Iowa, 2005

Record Palace (novel), Graywolf, 2005

Assorted Poems (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010

Meme (poetry), Iowa, 2012