Susan Elizabeth Tichy (born 25 April 1952, in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet.

from the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the MFA and undergraduate programs.

[2] For five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics, and also served as poetry editor for the short-lived but gorgeously produced journal, "'Practice: New Writing + Art," based in the Bay area.

Her work has appeared in AGNI,[3] Beloit Poetry Journal,[4] Cerise Press, Colorado Review, Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review,[5] Ploughshares,[6] 42opus,[7] Runes, and other journals.

She also lives in the southern Colorado Rockies.