Susanna Lang is the author of two previous books of poetry-Even Now (The Backwaters Press, 2008) and Tracing the Lines (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013). Her poems have been anthologized in Love Rise Up and City of Big Shoulders as well as Northern Music: Poems About and Inspired by Glenn Gould, and have appeared in such journals as december magazine, North American Review, Poetry East, and Prairie Schooner. A two-time Hambidge fellow and a recipient of the Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Bethesda Writer's Center, her translations of poetry by Yves Bonnefoy include Words in Stone and The Origin of Language. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches in the Chicago Public Schools.
