Susan Kinsolving's Biography

Susan Kinsolving's three books of poems are The White Eyelash, Dailies & Rushes, a finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Award, and Among Flowers.

Her books have been critically acclaimed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Poetry, Publishers Weekly, Vanity Fair, among others. Her poems have appeared numerous journals and anthologies.

Before joining the Core Faculty of The Bennington Writing Seminars, Susan taught poetry at University of Connecticut, Southampton College, Chautauqua Institute, Willard-Cybulski Mens' Prison, and California Institute of the Arts.

As a librettist, her works have been performed by the Glimmerglass Opera and The Baroque Choral Guild in The Netherlands, Italy, New York, and California. In 2010, a song cycle commissioned by the Magnum Opus project and in collaboration with composer David Carlson will premiere in California.

As a guest lecturer and reader, Kinsolving has been invited to present her work in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, Scotland, Switzerland, and throughout the United States.

She has been a recipient of international fellowships. She has been a poetry fellow in France, Italy, Switzerland and Scotland.