Susan Howe

Susan Howe is author of more than a dozen books of poetry and literary criticism. Her most recent collection of poems Souls of the Labadie Tract (New Directions, 2007). Her earlier critical study, My Emily Dickinson, was re-issued in 2007with an introduction by Eliot Weinberger. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Howe was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and served as a Chancellor to the Academy of American Poets between 2000-2006. She spent fall, 2009 in Germany on a Fellowship to the American Academy at Berlin where she completed a new work Frolic. That This, a new collection of work published by New Directions in 2010 recently won the Bollingen Prize.