Susan Suntree

Susan Suntree's book length non-fiction poem, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California (UNebraskaP), won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetic Narrative, and a Mellon Foundation Elemental Arts Award. Suntree's books and chapbooks include Eye of the Womb (Power Press) also published in Madrid (Vision Libros) as a bilingual edition, El Ojo de la Matriz; Tulips (Exiled-in-America Press), a...See more

Susan Suntree's book length non-fiction poem, Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California (UNebraskaP), won the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association Award for Nonfiction, the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Poetic Narrative, and a Mellon Foundation Elemental Arts Award. Suntree's books and chapbooks include Eye of the Womb (Power Press) also published in Madrid (Vision Libros) as a bilingual edition, El Ojo de la Matriz; Tulips (Exiled-in-America Press), a bilingual chapbook of translations of poetry by Spanish poet Ana Rossetti; Rita Moreno (Chelsea House); Wisdom of the East; Stories of Compassion, Inspiration and Love (Contemporary/McGraw Hill), editor, for which the Dalai Lama wrote the foreword. Suntree adapted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a poem set as a frequently performed choral work by award-winning composer Adrienne Albert (A Choral Quilt of Hope: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights). Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published essays and book chapters about activist theatre. Poetry Flash and Theatre Journal have published her reviews. See less