Introducing Susan Briante

Susan Briante’s poems have been published in New American Writing, TriQuarterly, Quarterly West, Kenning, The Marlboro Review, and Indiana Review  among others. Her translations have appeared in Bomb, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, and Mandorla. She has received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Millay Colony and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. From 1992-1997, she lived in Mexico City where she worked as the English Editor for the magazine Artes de México and as a member of the editorial staff of Mandorla.

Briante has taught English to fourth-graders in Costa Rica, literary theory to undergraduates in Mexico, and a course on the “road genre” in American film and literature to ESL students at New York City Technical College. She is a pursuing a Ph.D. in Poetics/Ethnic and Third World Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. New poems are forthcoming from Painted Bride Quarterly, QuarterAfterEight and POOL, among others.  She is the author of the pamphlet "True to Scale" published by Phylum Press.