Susan Mitchell

Susan Mitchell (born 1944) is an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon.

She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

[1][2] She has taught at Middlebury College and Northeastern Illinois University,[3] and currently holds the Mary Blossom Lee Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University.

[4] She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares,[5] and The Paris Review.

Her collection, Rapture, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award finalist.