Susan Wheeler

{{BLP sources|date=April 2007}} {{Infobox person | name = Susan Wheeler | birth_place = Pittsburgh, U.S. | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|07|16}} | alma_mater = University of Chicago | occupation = educator, poet }} '''Susan Wheeler''' (born July 16, 1955) is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies. She is currently Professor Emerita at Princeton University. She has also taught at University of Iowa, NYU, Rutgers, Columbia University and The New School.<ref> {{cite web |url = https://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/creative_writing/professor_bios/01_wheeler/index.xml |title = Susan Wheeler - Lewis Center for the Arts |publisher = Trustees of Princeton University |year = 2009 |access-date = 11 Oct 2012 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140517022623/http://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/creative_writing/professor_bios/01_wheeler/index.xml |archive-date = 17 May 2014 }}</ref>

Wheeler was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Minnesota and throughout New England. She received a BA from Bennington College in 1977 and pursued graduate studies in art history at the University of Chicago between 1979 and 1981.<ref name="International Who's Who in Poetry 2004">{{cite book|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2004|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC&pg=PA344|accessdate=11 October 2012|date=9 December 2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis US|isbn=978-1-85743-178-0|pages=344–}}</ref>

Wheeler was the first example of an Elliptical Poet described by Stephanie Burt in her creation of the term in 1998.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Burt | first = Stephen | author-link = | last2 = | first2 = | author2-link = | title = Burt Reviews Wheeler's "Smokes" | magazine = Boston Review | pages = | date = September 1998 | url =http://bostonreview.net/BR23.3/burt.html }}</ref> and expanded upon in an eponymous essay in American Letters & Commentary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.amletters.org/Issues/issue11.html |title=American Letters & Commentary: 11 |accessdate=2007-07-21 |work=American Letters & Commentary }}.</ref> Her work is also referred to in Jed Rasula's ''Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry''.<ref>{{cite book | last =Rasula | first =Jed | author-link = | title =Syncopations | publisher =University of Alabama Press | year =2004 | location = | pages = | url =https://archive.org/details/syncopationsstre0000rasu | doi = | id = | isbn =0-8173-5030-6 | url-access =registration }} </ref>

==Awards and honors== *1978-79 Vermont Councill of the Arts grantee *1987 Grolier award for poetry *1988 Prize for Poetry, Roberts Foundation *1990 Fund for Poetry grantee *1993 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow (1993–95, 1997–99) *1994 Norma Farber First Book Award, ''Bag o' Diamonds'' *1994 Pushcart Prize, ''Bag o' Diamonds'' *1999 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow *2000 Pushcart Prize, ''Bag o' Diamonds'' *2012 National Book Award (Poetry), finalist, ''Meme''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced Today |work=Library Journal |author= |date=October 10, 2012 |accessdate=November 15, 2012 |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206014159/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry series in these editions: 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1997, 2003, 2005.

==Works== *''Bag 'o' Diamonds'' (poetry), University of Georgia Press, 1993 *''Smokes'' (poetry), Four Way Books, 1998 *''Source Codes'' (poetry), Salt, 2001 *''Ledger'' (poetry), Iowa, 2005 *''Record Palace'' (novel), Graywolf, 2005 *''Assorted Poems'' (poetry), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010 *''Meme'' (poetry), Iowa, 2012

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