Susan Okie

Susan Okie's poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review , Prairie Schooner , The Bellevue Literary Review , Journal of the American Medical Association , Cider Press Review , Little Patuxent Review , Delmarva Review , Valparaiso Poetry Review , and other journals. A chapbook, Let You Fly , was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her poem, "Metamorphosis," was featured as poem of the day on Poetry Daily , and poet Michael Collier chose her poem, "Perseid," as winner of the 2012...See more

Susan Okie's poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review , Prairie Schooner , The Bellevue Literary Review , Journal of the American Medical Association , Cider Press Review , Little Patuxent Review , Delmarva Review , Valparaiso Poetry Review , and other journals. A chapbook, Let You Fly , was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. Her poem, "Metamorphosis," was featured as poem of the day on Poetry Daily , and poet Michael Collier chose her poem, "Perseid," as winner of the 2012 Bethesda Poetry Contest. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. A doctor and a former Washington Post medical reporter and science editor, Okie lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland. WOMAN AT THE CROSSING (Off the Grid Press, 2023) is her first full-length poetry collection. See less