Susan Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, The Cartographer’s Tongue / Poems of the World, Cures Include Travel, and The Alchemist’s Kitchen. She has received awards from PEN USA, The Times Literary Supplement, and Peace Corps Writers. Her fellowships include an Artists Trust Fellowship from Washington State and a Fulbright Fellowship in South Africa.
She has worked as a staff person for Amnesty International, an electoral supervisor in Bosnia Herzegovina, and a human rights trainer in Gaza and the West Bank. Rich lived in the Republic of Niger, West Africa as a Peace Corps Volunteer, later moving to South Africa to teach at the University of Cape Town on a Fulbright Fellowship.
November 18th, 2011, 7pm
Old Redmond Schoolhouse with Annette Spaulding-Convey & Harold Taw
February 4, 2012
The Search for Meaning Book Festival, Seattle University, Seattle, WA
March 14, 2012
Park Place Books, Kirkland with Kelli Russell Agodon
April 17, 2012
Portland, OR with Kelli Russell Agodon
April 28, 2012
Fields’ End Writers Conference, IslandWood, Bainbridge Island
Sept 7-9, 2012
Poets on the Coast: A Writing Retreat for Women with Kelli Agodon