Susan Jo Russell

Susan Jo Russell is a mathematics educator from Somerville, MA.  Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Chautauqua, Cider Press Review, Comstock Review, EcoTheo Review, Leon, Passager, and elsewhere, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Her poem, “Tree,” won the Amy Lowell Prize from the New England Poetry Club and “Membrane,” appears in the collection, From the Farther Shore: Discovering Cape Cod and the Islands Through Poetry. She co-directs the Brookline (MA) Poetry Series.

• The Face
• Eve Walking Through
• Milkweed
• After Going to Bed Mad
• Self-Portrait with Hands
• Remember How We Used to Hold Hands, Awkwardly, Across the Armrest in the Movies?
• Review: Lily Greenberg’s “In the Shape of a Woman”