Bio for 2025
Susanna Spearman (they/she) is a queer, Appalachian poet originally from South Carolina. They graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio in August, 2024. They live in central Kentucky with their wife, four cats, and senior chihuahua. They're a full-time ESL and English teacher. In addition to being the Secretary of Kentucky State Poetry Society, they are also co-editor of the KSPS literary journal, Pegasus. They are the director of Multifarious Collective, an organization based in central Kentucky that amplifies multilingual/multicultural poetic and artistic voices.
They were the 2023 winner of the BGWS Emerging Writer Award for Poetry (selected by Bernard Clay). They have poems published in West Trade Review, Still: The Journal, Untelling Journal, Carolina Muse, UDD3R Mag, and Yearling Journal. They have pieces forthcoming in Verses from the Underground and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit.
They were the 2023 winner of the BGWS Emerging Writer Award for Poetry (selected by Bernard Clay). They have poems published in West Trade Review, Still: The Journal, Untelling Journal, Carolina Muse, UDD3R Mag, and Yearling Journal. They have pieces forthcoming in Verses from the Underground and Meow Meow Pow Pow Lit.
Reason for signing up:
I neeeeeeeeeeed to write. I have been feeling so stagnant, and nothing quite like writing with a bunch of your peers to inspire ya!
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 03, 2025 Cherries
- June 04, 2025 Baptist Health, South Tower, Room 448 (hospice)
- June 05, 2025 Grudge Stitch for Fathers Day | in the form of the Afro-Carolinian Quilt Stitch
- June 06, 2025 healing my relationship with sonnets | for Lee Harrick
- June 07, 2025 Grief Stitch - in the form of Afro-Carolinian Quilt Stitch
- June 14, 2025 Eastside of Eden | for MJ
- June 15, 2025 Untitled 1
- June 17, 2025 everything that feels like a kiss and nothing that doesn’t
- June 22, 2025 The man who wanted to own the sky (a war poem)
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