Susan Thomas

Susan Thomas was born in New York City in 1946. She earned a B.A. and an M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College, and has stories, poems and translations in many journals and anthologies.

She has won first prizes from Spoon River Review and New York Stories, as well as the Iowa Poetry Award from The Iowa Review, the Ann Stanford Prize from The University of Southern California, and the 2010 MR Prize from the Mississippi Review. Her collection, State of Blessed Gluttony (Red Hen Press, 2004), won the Benjamin Saltman Prize.

She has also published two chapbooks, The Hand Waves Goodbye (Main Street Rag, 2002), and Voice of the Empty Notebook (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Her collection of short stories, Knock and Enter, was a runner-up for the Bakeless Prize. Last Voyage, translations from the Italian of Giovanni Pascoli, co-translated with Richard Jackson and Deborah Brown, is forthcoming in April, 2010 from Red Hen Press. She has been the recipient of several grants from the Vermont Arts Council.

Recently, her poems and translations have appeared in Cérise (France), Indiana Review, MARGIE, and Poetry Miscellany. New work is forthcoming in Mississippi Review, CUTTHROAT, Ellipsis and Calyx.

She lives in Marshfield, VT and New York City with her husband, Peter Sills.