Contacts

• M.A., English, , Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
• Ph.D., Literature and the Environment, University of Nevada, Reno

Suzanne Roberts is a travel/nature writer, memoirist, and poet. Her books include the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (University of Nebraska Press), and the poetry books Plotting Temporality (Pecan Grove Press, 2012),Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (Cherry Grove Collections, 2011), Nothing to You (Pecan Grove Press, 2008), and Shameless (Cherry Grove Collections, 2007). Her essays have been anthologized in The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader (Mountaineers Press, 2011), Tahoe Blues (Bona Fide Books, 2012), and elsewhere. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many literary journals, such as Smartish Pace, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, Poems & Plays, Fourth River, The MacGuffin, National Geographic Traveler, Alligator Juniper, Atlanta Review, Gulf Stream, and South American Explorers. Suzanne was named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler. She is a two-time recipient of the McMillan and Randall Reid Creative Writing Awards from the University of Nevada Reno, and she won first prize in the Fourth River International Poetry Contest. She is the recipient of the 2011 Eda Kriseova Fellowship in Prague. She currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.