Suzanne Gardinier

Poet and essayist Suzanne Gardinier was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on January 25, 1961. She earned her BA at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and her MFA at Columbia University.

Gardinier has authored twelve books, including five books of poetry: Atlas (Ediciones SG, 2017); Iridium & Selected Poems, 1986–2009 (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011); Dialogue with the Archipelago (Sheep Meadow Press, 2009); Today: 101 Ghazals (Sheep Meadow Press, 2008); and The New World (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993). She has also published a collection of essays on poetry, A World That Will Hold All the People (University of Michigan Press, 1996), and several prose works on other subjects, including Letter from Palestine (Ediciones SG, 2007) and Notes from Havana (Ediciones SG 2016).

Gardinier is the recipient of grants from the Lannan Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. She holds the Anita Stafford Chair in Service Learning at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn.