Summary

Suzanne Roberts is a travel writer, memoirist, and poet. Her books include the award-winning memoirAlmost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail(Bison Books, 2012), and the poetry booksPlotting Temporality(Pecan Grove Press, 2012),Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel(Cherry Grove Collections, 2011),Nothing to You(Pecan Grove Press, 2008), andShameless(Cherry Grove Collections, 2007). Her essays have been anthologized inThe Kiss: Intimacies from Writers, The Pacific Crest Trailside Reader, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, Best Women’s Travel Writing, Tahoe Blues,and elsewhere.

Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in many literary journals, such asCreative Nonfiction, ZYZZYVA, ISLE, Brevity, Fourth River, River Teeth, National Geographic Traveler, Alligator Juniper, Atlanta Review, Gulf Stream,andSouth American Explorers. Suzanne was named “The Next Great Travel Writer” byNational Geographic’s Traveler, and one of her essays was listed as notable in 2015 in theBest American Essays. She is a two-time recipient of the McMillan and Randall Reid Creative Writing Awards from the w88 live casino Reno, and she won first prize in the Creative Nonfiction Contest, the Fourth River International Poetry Contest. She is the recipient of the 2011 Eda Kriseova Fellowship in Prague. She currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.

Education

• M.A., English, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
• Ph.D., Literature and the Environment, w88 live casino, Reno