Susan Wheeler
Susan Wheeler | |
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| Born | July 16, 1955 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Occupations | Educator, poet |
Susan Wheeler (born July 16, 1955) is an educator and poet. She is professor emeritus at Princeton University.[1] She has also taught at the University of Iowa, New York University, Rutgers University, Columbia University and The New School.[2][3]
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.[4][5][6][7]
Wheeler was the first example of an Elliptical poet described by Stephanie Burt in her coinage of the term in 1998[8] and expanded upon in an eponymous essay in American Letters & Commentary.[9] Her work is also referred to in Jed Rasula's Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry.[10]
Awards and honors
- 1978 Vermont Arts Council grant[11]
- 1987 Grolier Award for Poetry[12]
- 1988 Roberts Foundation Prize for Poetry[12]
- 1990 Fund for Poetry grant[11]
- 1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship[13]
- 1994 Norma Farber First Book Award, Bag o' Diamonds[14]
- 1994 Pushcart Prize, Bag o' Diamonds[15]
- 1997 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship[13]
- 1999 Guggenheim Fellowship[16]
- 2000 Pushcart Prize, Bag o' Diamonds[17]
- 2012 National Book Award for Poetry finalist, Meme[18]
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry series in these editions: 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997, 2003, and 2005.
Works
Poetry
- Bag 'o' Diamonds, University of Georgia Press, 1993
- Smokes, Four Way Books, 1998
- Source Codes, Salt Publishing, 2001
- Ledger, University of Iowa Press, 2005
- Assorted Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
- Meme, University of Iowa Press, 2012
Novels
- Record Palace, Graywolf Press, 2005
References
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Lewis Center for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2025-10-16. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Center for the Humanities. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis US. 2003. p. 344. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
- ↑ International who's who in poetry 2005. London: Europa. 2004. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-203-32580-3.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Princeton Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Burt, Stephen (September 1998). "Burt Reviews Wheeler's "Smokes"". Boston Review.
- ↑ "American Letters & Commentary: 11". American Letters & Commentary. Retrieved 2007-07-21..
- ↑ Rasula, Jed (2004). Syncopations. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-5030-6.
- 1 2 "Susan Wheeler". The Program in Creative Writing, Princeton University. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 "Wheeler, Susan 1955–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- 1 2 "Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists" (PDF). NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Ploughshares. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Henderson, Bill, ed. (1994). The Pushcart prize, XIX, 1994-1995: best of the small presses. Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-92-6.
- ↑ "Susan Wheeler". Guggenheim Fellowship. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- ↑ Henderson, Bill, ed. (2000). The Pushcart prize, 2000, XXIV: best of the small presses. Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-19-2.
- ↑ "National Book Award Finalists Announced Today". Library Journal. October 11, 2012. Retrieved 2026-07-14.
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American women
- American women academics
- Bennington College alumni
- Formalist poets
- The New Yorker people
- Princeton University faculty
- University of Chicago alumni
- Writers from Pittsburgh
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American women poets
- American poet, 1950s birth stubs