About Susana

Susana2 smallerSusana H. Case, Ph. D., is the author of nine books of poetry. If This Isn’t Love, from Broadstone Books (2023) is her newest. The Damage Done, from Broadstone Books, won a Pinnacle Award for Best Poetry Book. Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books (2020), also won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, as well as a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Drugstore Blue, from Five Oaks Press, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes. The Scottish Café was reprinted as an English-Polish edition by the University of Opole Press and as an English-Ukrainian edition by Slapering Hol Press. Case’s poems appear in CalyxThe Cortland Review, Fourteen Hills, Portland Review, Potomac Review,  Rattle, and RHINO, among others. Aside from Polish and Ukrainian, she has been published via translation into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case is co-editor, with Margo Taft Stever, of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk and Cake Press (2022) which was a finalist for an American Book Fest award and a International Book Award in the anthology category and was Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award.

Case co-curates, with Lynn McGee (series founder), Sandy Yannone, and Carolyne Wright, the W-E (West-East) Bicoastal Poets of the Pandemic and Beyond series which features writers from both coasts and many other regions.

She recently retired as Professor from the New York Institute of Technology in New York City, where she taught for thirty-eight years.

Listen to /watch Susana H. Case on Grace Cavalieri’sThe Poet and the Poem: The Poet and the Poem with host Grace Cavalieri