Susan Hahn is the author of eight books of poetry, including
the just released The Note She Left.
She is the recipient of numerous awards for her poems, including
several Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and Fellowships,
The Society of Midland Authors Award in Poetry, two Pushcart
Prizes and a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship.
The Chicago Tribune named her fourth book, Holiday, and her fifth book, Mother in Summer, among the best books of 2002.
Her first play, Golf, directed by Ann Filmer, premiered
in 2005 at Circle Theatre in Forest Park and her seventh book
of poetry, The
Scarlet Ibis, was directed by Ann as a verse
play in an earlier version in 2007.
She is the Editor of Northwestern University's award-winning literary magazine, TriQuarterly. Currently she is working on a new play and her first novel, from which five chapters have been, or are about to be, published. Her writings have appeared in such places as The Atlantic Monthly, The Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Susan lives in Winnetka with her husband, Fred, and her son, Rick, daughter-in-law, Jean, and grandsons, Jake and Charlie, live nearby. Rick is the Assistant General Manager of the Chicago White Sox. Go Sox!! |
