Susan Wood (born 1946, Commerce, Texas) is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.

Life

Wood received her B.A. from East Texas State University and her M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University. She taught high school and worked as an editor and writer for ''The Washington Post'' and magazines. Her poems have appeared in such journals as ''The Antioch Review'', ''Callaloo (literary magazine), Callaloo'', the ''Greensboro Review'', ''Indiana Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Missouri Review'', the ''New England Review'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''Poetry (magazine), Poetry''.

Awards

* 1991 List of winners of the James Laughlin Award#Lamont Poetry Selections (1976–1995), Lamont Poetry Selection for ''Campo Santo'' * Pushcart Prize for her poem "Diary," * 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry

Works

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Poetry books

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References

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