Diane Seuss
Diane Seuss is an American poet and educator.
She was born in Michigan City, Indiana and grew up in Michigan: in Edwardsburg and Niles. Seuss received a BA from Kalamazoo College and a 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, St. Louis. Seuss is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow.
Her poetry has been published in Gulf Coast, Missouri Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker among many other places. 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.
The LA Times said that Seuss is "writing some of the most animated and complex poetry today".Selected works