Suzanne Burns

Suzanne Burns is a writer of fiction and poetry whose work often blends the domestic with the surreal, tracing the emotional and bodily landscapes of desire, aging, grief and transformation. Her books include Look at All the Colors Hidden There (Galileo Press), Now It Seems That I Am Not Here at All (Tailwinds Press), Boys (University of Hell Press), The Veneration of Monsters (Dzanc Books), Sweet and Vicious (Black Scat Books), Love Songs for Las Vegas (Future Cycle Press), The Portland Poems (Finishing Line Press) and Misfits and Other Heroes (Dzanc Books), 

Her work has appeared in journals including The Christian Science Monitor, Free State Review, Diagram, Room Magazine, Failbetter, and The Sunday Oregonian. Her books have been reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews (starred review; Top 100 Book of the Year), Ms. Magazine (starred review), Booklist, Powells.com (Book of the Day), Newpages, and More Magazine. She has received numerous awards, including first place in DIAGRAM’s Innovative Fiction Prize, Writer’s Digest’s Genre Fiction Award, the Inkwell Poetry Prize, and multiple finalist and longlist honors for the Calvino Award, New Millennium Writing Awards and Bedford Poetry Competition.

Suzanne has studied craft with Ken Kesey, Primus St. John, and Barrett Warner, and has given readings throughout the Pacific Northwest, including appearances at Wordstock and Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon.

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Links:

FICTION:

Now It Seems That I Am Not Here at All, Tailwinds Press

Publisher’s Weekly Review

Kirkus Review

The Veneration of Monsters, Dzanc Books

Kirkus Review 

Full Stop Review

Large-Hearted Boy 

JMWW Review

Herald Net

Booklist

Sweet and Vicious, Black Scat Books

Misfits and Other Heroes, Dzanc Books

Live Nude Books Review 

 

POETRY: 

Chapbook, Navy Brat from Bottlecap Press

Look at All the Colors Hidden There, Galileo Books

New virtual reading

The Paris Poems, BlazeVOX Books

Rattle Magazine Review

Decomp Mag Review

Boys, University of Hell Press

 

Poems online: 

Sixfold: https://old.sixfold.org/PoFall13/Burns.html

Strange Horizons: https://strangehorizons.com/poetry/daughters/

Pif Magazine: https://www.pifmagazine.com/2001/02/morning-in-chinatown/

NYCBigCityLit: https://nycbigcitylit.com/aug2002/contents/Twelve12.html#Burns

Failbetter: https://failbetter.com/06/BurnsBallad.php

The Cortland Review: https://archive.cortlandreview.org/issue/16/burns16.html

Rkvry: https://rkvryquarterly.com/peeling-an-orange-by-suzanne-burns/

The Ministry of Happiness: https://revkane.com/2019/10/23/happiness-is-poetry-suzanne-burns/

 

Stories online: 

Story366: https://story366blog.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/january-16-the-resurrection-of-debbie-by-suzanne-burns/

Black Denim Lit: https://www.bdlit.com/the-line-of-fate.html

Digital Americana: http://thedigitalamericana.com/issues/index.html

The Diagram: https://www.thediagram.com/13_3/burns.html

 

Essays online: 

The Establishment: https://theestablishment.co/the-taste-of-fame/index.html

 

Interviews:

Future Tense Books: https://www.futuretensebooks.com/futuret/interviews/sburns.html

The Oregonian: https://www.oregonlive.com/books/2009/07/suzanne_burns_love_affair_with.html

The Next Best Book Blog: https://thenextbestbookblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/suzanne-burns-would-you-rather.html