Books


The Alchemist's Kitchen


Cures Include Travel


The Cartographer's Tongue
About Susan

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.

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100k Poets for Change

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Phase I of LitCrawl

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October 18th 2012 6:00pm

Massholes: Write Rage, The Pike and the Beauty of a Rotary

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March 8th-10th 2013

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Nye Beach, Ore.
September 6th-8th 2012


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