Bag 'o' diamonds : poems

Susan Wheeler's first collection of poetry, Bag 'o' Diamonds (University of Georgia Press), received the Norma Farber First Book Award of the Poetry Society of America and was short-listed for the Los Angeles. Times Book Award. Her second, Smokes, with an afterword by Robert Hass received the Four Way Books Prize for 1998. Her awards include show more fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundarion and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her work has appeared in six editions of the Scribner anthology Best American Poetry, and in The Paris Review, New American Writing, Talisman, The New Yorker and other journals. On the graduate faculty in creative writing at the New School and the creative writing faculty at Princeton University, she has also taught at the University of Iowa. New York University and Rutgers University. She lives in New York City show less