Background
She was born and raised in west central Maine and is an elder of the Abenaki Bear Clan.
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Suzanne Rancourt
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Education
Rancourt has a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College and a Master of Science in Educational Psychology from University at Albany, State University of New New York
Career
Her work has also been published in the literary journals Callaloo and The Cimarron Review, as well as many other anthologies. She is currently living in Hadley, New New York Rancourt has coordinated Pow wows, and held workshops on topics including drum making.
She has worked as a counselor for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in New York and has also worked as a parent education specialist for a Head Start Program in the northern part of the state.
Among other things, Rancourt is also a singer/songwriter, a personal fitness trainer, a percussionist, an herbal educator, and a dance instructor. Suzanne Rancourt"s poetry in Billboard in the Clouds addresses at least three themes.
Ancestral poems cover stories Rancourt has heard conveying deep connections between her people and their land. Rancourt"s poems have been praised for their vivid imagery and simple, elegant style.
Reviews
Archuleta, Elizabeth (May–June 2006).
"Billboard In The Clouds (review)". World Literature Today 80 (3). p. 74.
Birns, Nicholas (March–April 2005).
"The Other East Coast".
American Book Review 26 (3). pp. 17–20. Kennedy, Pat (2008).
"Billboard in the Clouds (review)". Studies in American Indian Literatures 20 (2). pp.
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