Hand Me Down

by Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

$14, paper

Susan Elizabeth Sweeneys poems and translations have appeared in The Worcester Review, Friends Journal, Diner, The Journal of Irish Literature, and elsewhere, and have received awards including an American Academy of Poets Prize, the Frank OHara Poetry Prize (judged by Peter Johnson), and selection as a semifinalist in the New Womens Voices Poetry Chapbook Competition (judged by Leah Maines). A former president of the Worcester County Poetry Association, Beth initiated an annual intercollegiate contest for central Massachusetts student poets that is now in its sixth year. Her chapbook, Hand Me Down, will be published by Finishing Line Press in June 2013.

Beths other publications include essays and edited books on detective stories, womens writing, experimental fiction, and the works of Vladimir Nabokov. She was recently awarded two fellowships to conduct research for an original screenplay, titled The Raven Woos the Dove, about Poes doomed courtship of poet Sarah Helen Whitman.

Beth grew up in Baltimore, graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and earned an MFA in poetry and a PhD in American literature from Brown University. She now lives with her husband and their two dogs in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she teaches American literature and creative writing at the College of the Holy Cross.

For more information about Beth and her poetry, visit her website: susanelizabethsweeney.wordpress.com

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