Susan Eisenberg, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, is a poet, visual artist, and oral historian, who works within and across genres. First introduced to the craft of poetry by Denise Levertov, she is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and taught for a decade at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is author of three previous poetry collections-Blind Spot, Pioneering, and It's a Good Thing I'm Not Macho-as well as the nonfiction New York Times Notable Book, We'll Call You If We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction, optioned by MGM. Awards include a Mass Humanities "Freedom and Justice for All" grant and three residencies at Hedgebrook. A 35-year member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), she was among the first women in the country to become a licensed union electrician. On Equal Terms, her 900-square-foot installation combining poetry with 3-D mixed media, audio, photography, found objects, and artifacts, has been exhibited in galleries in Massachusetts, Michigan, and New York. A longtime resident of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, she is a Resident Artist/Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center where her projects focus on medical humanities and employment equity; and the 2016-2017 Twink Frey Visiting Social Activist at the University of Michigan.
