Diane Seuss (Seuss-Brakeman) was raised in Niles, MI. In 1995 she received a fellowship for a residency with the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. She was the first recipient of the Jewel Heart Poetry Prize. Diane Seuss is Writer-in-Residence at Kalamazoo College. She is the author of the poetry collection It Blows You Hollow (New Issues, 1998). Her poems have been anthologized in Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets Do Housework (2005), Are You Experienced? Baby Boom Poets at Midlife (2003), and Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation (1999), all from the University of Iowa Press. Seuss’s work has recently appeared in The North American Review, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review, and The Georgia Review. Her second book, Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, won the 2009 Juniper Prize in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Press.

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