Suzanne Cleary

Suzanne Cleary is an American poet. She was born in Binghamton, New York. She grew up there. She has an M.A. in Writing from Washington University, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor of English at State University of New York at Rockland.

Quotation
"I love to read poems where I think the poet includes something that may not work or almost doesn't work. To me that's an exciting kind of risk."

Awards
 Winner of the 2012 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry from the University of Missouri, Kansas City
 Winner of the 2012 Emerging Writer Fellowship for Poetry from The Writer's Center, Bethesda, Maryland
 a Pushcart Prize (2005)
 the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America
 Julia Peterkin Award of Converse College
 Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize
Patterson Award for Literary Excellence
2024 Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award 

Books
 Keeping Time (2002)
 Trick Pear (2007)
 Beauty Mark (2013)
 Crude Angel (2018)
 The Odds (2025)

 Critical writing 
 Cleary, Suzanne. "Be Still and Know: Silence in the Poetry of Jean Valentine," in Laurel Review 40.2. (2006)
 Cleary, Suzanne. "A Control Room inside of Me," Georgia Review September 25, 2014."A Control Room inside of Me"  Retrieved 2014.10.20

 Related material 
List of poets from North America

References

Other websites
 Poet's page


Category:American poets
Category:Living people
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People from Binghamton, New York
Category:State University of New York faculty