Diane Seuss

rdf:langString Diane Seuss

rdf:langString Diane Seuss

rdf:langString Diane Seuss

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rdf:langString Kalamazoo College

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rdf:langString poet, educator

rdf:langString Diane Seuss (born 1956) is an American poet and educator. Her book frank: sonnets won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry in 2022. She was born in Michigan City, Indiana and grew up in Michigan in Edwardsburg and Niles. Seuss received a BA from Kalamazoo College and an MSW from Western Michigan University. She taught at Kalamazoo College from 1988 until 2016. In 2012, she was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at Colorado College. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Washington University in St. Louis. Seuss is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. In 2021 she received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among the many places where her poetry has been published are Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Her book Four-Legged Girl was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry.