Susan Briante
Susan Briante is the author most recently of Defacing the Monument (Noemi Press 2020), a series of essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. She is a professor in the creative writing program at the University of Arizona, where she directs the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program, which brings MFA students to the US-Mexico border to engage in reciprocal research projects with community-based environmental and social justice groups. 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2025.