Susan Wheeler (born July 16, 1955) is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies.
[1] Wheeler was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Minnesota and throughout 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.
[2] Wheeler was the first example of an Elliptical Poet described by Stephanie Burt in her creation of the term in 1998.
[4] Her work is also referred to in Jed Rasula's Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry.