Susan Landers

Susan Landers’ most recent book, Franklinstein, is a multi-genre collection about a Philadelphia neighborhood wrestling with the legacies of colonialism, racism, and capitalism. She is also the author of two books of poetry—248 mgs., a panic picnic and Covers. Her chapbooks include 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook. Her poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Offing, The Philadelphia Review of Books, The Chicago Review, and elsewhere. She was a 2018 artist in residence at PLAYA Summer Lake and a 2015 resident fellow at Saltonstall Colony for the Arts. She has an MFA from George Mason University and lives in Brooklyn, where she is working on a collection of poems about riding every New York City subway line end to end.