Education
From the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the Master of Fine Arts and undergraduate programs.
From the University of Colorado, and is a Full Professor at George Mason University, where she has taught since 1988 in the Master of Fine Arts and undergraduate programs.
She received a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College and an Master of Arts Foreign five years she was Executive Producer of Poetry Theater: An Evening of Visual Poetics, and also served as poetry editor for the short-lived but gorgeously produced journal, ""Practice: New Writing + Art," based in the Bay area. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cerise Press, Colorado Review, Court Green, CutBank, Denver Quarterly, Fascicle, Free Verse, Hotel Amerika, Indiana Review, Ploughshares, 42opus, Runes, and other journals. She also lives in the southern Colorado Rockies.
In Bone Pagoda, Susan Tichy’s third full-length collection of poetry and her first in nearly 20 years, the poet explores the stark and horrifying realities of war and its aftermath through a fierce lyricism, an insistent and bodily music that urges the reader to say these poems aloud.