Suzette Bishop has published three books of poetry, Hive-Mind, Horse-Minded, and She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes, and two chapbooks, Cold Knife Surgery and Jaguar’s Book of the Dead. Her micro-chapbook, Unbecoming, is forthcoming in 2026. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Jellyfish Whispers, Free State Review, Windward Review, Setu, The New Verse News, Ethel, Borderlands, Concho River Review, Journal of Texas Women Writers, Aries, The Antioch Review, Fugue, 13th Moon and in the anthologies Waves: A Confluence of Women’s Voices, But You Don’t Look Sick, Northwind Treasury, The Southern Poetry Anthology, The Four Seasons Anthology, Imagination & Place, The Virago Book of Birth Poetry, and American Ghost: Poets on Life after Industry. Her poems have won the Spoon River Poetry Review Editors’ Prize Contest and Honorable Mention in the Pen 2 Paper Contest sponsored by the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities. In addition to university teaching, she has given workshops for gifted children, senior citizens, writers on the US-Mexico border, at-risk youth, and for an afterschool arts program serving a rural Hispanic community. She has ME/CFS and fibromyalgia and lives with her husband and two cats.
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