Susan Wood (poet)

Susan Wood (born 1946, Commerce, Texas) is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.

Life
Wood received her B.A. from East Texas State University and her M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University.

She taught high school and worked as an editor and writer for The Washington Post and magazines.

Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Antioch Review, Callaloo, the Greensboro Review, Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review, the New England Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry.

Awards

 * 1991 Lamont Poetry Selection for Campo Santo
 * Pushcart Prize for her poem "Diary,"
 * 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry