Susan Firer, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Office: Curtin Hall 576
Phone: 414-229-6993
e-mail: sfirer@uwm.edu

Degree(s):

M.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1982

Teaching Interests:

Creative Writing
Twentieth-Century Women Writers
Whitman's Tradition
Contemporary American Poetry

Recent Publications:

Books:
Milwaukee Does Strange Things To People: New And Selected Poems 1979-2007 (2007)

The Laugh We Make When We Fall, Backwaters Press, (2002)

The Lives of the Saints and Everything, Cleveland State University Press, (1993)

The Underground Communion Rail, West End Press, (1992)

My Life with the Tsar and Other Poems, New Rivers Press, (1979)

Poems in such journals as:
New American Writing, North American Review, Georgia Review, Hanging Loose, Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, Southern Poetry Review, The Cream City Review, Chicago Review, Exquisite Corpse, Portland Review, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune Magazine.

Poetry anthologies such as:
Best American Poetry 1992 (Scribners/Cloth, Macmillan Collier Pbk), Book of Irish American Poetry (Notre Dame Press), A Whole Other Ballgame: Women's Literature on Women's Sport (Farrar, Straus and Girous). Two poems were read by Garrison Keillor on National Public Radio Writers' Almanac in the spring of 1994.

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Department of English P.O. Box 413 UW-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI 53201

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