Discipline: Literature

Susan Mitchell

Discipline: Literature
Region: Fort Lauderdale, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1980
Susan Mitchell is an American poet, essayist and translator who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon. She has a B.A. in English literature from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Georgetown University, and was a Ph.D. student at Columbia University. She has taught at Middlebury College and Northeastern Illinois University, and currently holds the Mary Blossom Lee Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University. She has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Ploughshares, and the Paris Review. Her poems have also been included in five volumes of The Best American Poetry and two Pushcart Prize volumes. She has been recognized for her work by notable organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. Her collection, Rapture, won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award finalist.

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Heyward

Susan Mitchell worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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