Susan Wood is the author of three collections of poems: Asunder, which was selected by Garrett Hongo for the National Poetry Series; Campo Santo, which won the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Bazaar. Her work has won a Pushcart Prize, was included in the Best American Poetry 2000, and has appeared in many magazines and journals, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review and TriQuarterly. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is currently Professor and Chair of English at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

About Meridian:
Poets in this issue: Courtney Dodson, Donald Platt, Stephen Cushman, Elton Glaser, Susan Wood, Walt Whitman, Hailey Leithauser, James Nohrnberg, Steve Langan