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.
July 18th – 25th, 2010
Centrum Writers Conference, Port Townsend, WA Reading and Workshop
October 1, 2010
November 2nd, 7:00 PM
Reading and workshop at
November 7, 2:00 PM
Ekphrastic poems with Allen Braden, Oliver de la Paz, and Kelli Agodon.
November 13th
The Ink Spot, San Diego
with Ilya Kaminsky
January 23rd, 3:00 PM
Eagle Harbor Books, Bainbridge w/ Kelli Agodon and Lana Ayers
March 10th, 7:00 PM
Northwind Art Gallery w/
Kelli Russell Agodon
March 15th, 5:30 PM
Windfall Reading Series,
Eugene, Oregon
April 14th, 7: 30 PM
Seattle Arts and Lectures with Brian Turner and Major Jackson, Benaroya Hall, Seattle