{{short description|American poet}}
'''Susan Scutti''' is an American fiction writer, poet and journalist currently writing on medical issues for Newsweek,<ref name="newsweek">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsweek.com/authors/susan-scutti|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023233032/http://www.newsweek.com/authors/susan-scutti |archive-date=2013-10-23 |url-status=dead|title=Susan Scutti|website=Newsweek |access-date=2015-09-22}}</ref> CNN<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/health/what-is-heart-failure-heart-attack-sudden-cardiac-arrest-explainer/index.html|title=What are heart failure, heart attack and cardiac arrest?|website=CNN|date=26 December 2016}}</ref> CBS Philly<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/12/22/pregnancy-changes-brain-for-years/|title=Pregnancy Changes a Mother's Brain for Years, Study Shows|date=22 December 2016}}</ref> and Medical Daily.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medicaldaily.com/archives/articles/reporter/susan-scutti |title=Susan Scutti |publisher=Medicaldaily.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-27 |archive-date=2013-06-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627060259/http://www.medicaldaily.com/archives/articles/reporter/susan-scutti |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Scutti obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University She then went on to earn a master's degree in American studies from CUNY.<ref>{{cite web |title=Susan Scutti |url=http://www.medicaldaily.com/reporters/susan-scutti |website=medicaldaily.com | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220804044732/https://www.medicaldaily.com/reporters/susan-scutti | archive-date=2022-08-04}}</ref> As a poet she has published a volume of verse ''The Commute'' (Paper Kite Press 2011 {{ISBN|0-9831606-0-0}}) and had her poems included in several anthologies, such as ''Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café'' (Holt Paperbacks 1994).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qx8yrOG29vYC&q=susan+scutti+aloud&pg=PA508 |title=Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe - Google Books |date= 15 August 1994|isbn=9780805032574 |accessdate=2013-10-27|last1=Algarin |first1=Miguel |last2=Holman |first2=Bob |publisher=Macmillan }}</ref> and ''The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry'' (Thunder's Mouth Press 1999),<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j6tyHt_iVZIC&q=susan+scutti&pg=PR21 |title=The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry - Google Books |date= 27 October 1999|isbn=9781560252276 |accessdate=2013-10-27|last1=Kaufman |first1=Alan |last2=Griffin |first2=S. A. |publisher=Basic Books }}</ref> among others.
As a writer of fiction she has published a book of short stories; ''The Renaissance Began with a Muted Shade of Green'' (Linear Arts 1999- {{ISBN|1-891219-65-0}})) and three novels, beginning with ''A kind of Sleep'' in 2004 ({{ISBN|0595335993}}), ''Second Generation'' in ({{ISBN|0595268803}}) in 2008, both independently, and ''The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed'' (2011– available as a digital download from Raven Rock Press). A core member of the rag tag literary collective "the Unbearables", Scutti has works in several of their collections.
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==External links== * [http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/susanscutti New York Quarterly Foundation biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815090705/http://www.nyqpoets.net/poet/susanscutti |date=2010-08-15 }}
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