Susan Stewart (poet)
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Susan Stewart is an American poet, university professor and literary critic born in 1952.
She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University. Recent works of criticism include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, (winner of the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism in 2003 from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2004), and The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics, a collection of her writings on contemporary art. Recent poetic works include Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle award, and The Forest. Stewart is also a translator, most recently having translated Euripides' Andromache with Wesley Smith and the poetry and selected prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione with Brunella Antomarini. Professor Stewart holds degrees from Dickinson College (B.A. in English and Anthropology), the Johns Hopkins University (M.A. in Poetics) and the University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. in Folklore). She is also the recipient of a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, a Readers' Digest Writer's Award, two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, an arts fellowship from the Pew Charitable Trusts, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Journal. They are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. Stewart has also published books on literary and aesthetic theory including Crimes of Writing, On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection and Nonsense.
Most recently she was working with the composer James Primosch on a song cycle commissioned by the Chicago Symphony that was to have its premiere in the Spring of 2006. In 2005 Professor Stewart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
