Susan Jo Russell

Susan Jo Russell is a mathematics educator from Somerville, MA.  Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, Chautauqua, Passager, Slant, The Comstock Review, and elsewhere, and she has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Her poem, “Tree,” won the 2018 Amy Lowell Prize from the New England Poetry Club. Her chapbook, We Are Not Entirely Abandoned, is published by Finishing Line Press. She co-directs the Brookline 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?