She is a 1993 Pew Fellow, and author of several books of poetry: Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Held and Firmly Bound (a chapbook), and Stain.
In collaboration with composer Thomas Whitman, she authored four libretti: The Black Swan,[1] Sukey in the Dark, Babylon and A Scandal in Bohemia.
[4] She has been teaching at Swarthmore College since 1982 and is currently a Professor Emerita in their Department of English Literature.
She is also Director of their Program in Creative Writing as well as a Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.
[26] On November 8, 2012, University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House inaugurated the Eva and Leo Sussman Poetry Program with poetry readings by featured guest writers and instructors, Nathalie Anderson, Elaine Terranova, and Joan Hutton Landis.