Susan Firer’s poetry has been published in literary magazines such as Chicago Review and Iowa Review, and in anthologies such as Best American Poetry of 1992. In addition to The Backwaters Prize for 2001, she has won the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Prize, and was named Milwaukee’s Poet Laureate in 2008. Firer received her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where she is Assistant Professor of English.
Book by Susan Firer at the Backwaters Press
The Laugh We Make When We Fall
Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People
Honors for Susan Firer
Milwaukee Poet Laureate 2008-2010