Sue Doro's Biography

Sugar String, just published. Can be purchased from Bottom Dog Press on the internet. 220 pages $18. Janet Zandy said of Sugar String: "Sugar string, tied tightly around white bakery boxes, is transformed by Sue Doro’s poetic machining into sturdy filaments, essential fiber sustaining her through working-class poverty, father abuse, mother loss, and the cruel silencing of a kid with imagination and wonder. Neither sugary nostalgia nor bitter reminiscence, surprising in their wit and power, amazing in their recalled detail, Doro’s poems take on dead rats, mean relatives, alcoholic fathers, stilts, lowered expectations, no money, and wells of grief to emerge as narratives of struggle and survival and love. Sue Doro epitomizes the strength and power of human expression, and her poetry has earned a wide audience." --- Janet Zandy
Professor Zandy is an educator, author and editor of such anthologies as "Calling Home: Working-Class Women's Writings"; "Liberating Memory--Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness"; “Hands. Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work”; and “American Working-Class Literature”. Professor Zandy's analyses blossom from her own working class roots. She teaches Language and Literature at Rochester Institute of Technology, and is published widely on women's as well as class and labor issues.