Susan Swartwout

Susan Swartwout is a poet and professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University, where she also publishes the university press and edits two literary journals. Her poetry collection Odd Beauty, Strange Fruit (Brick Mantel Books, 2015) draws on Southern gothic themes and the lives of sideshow performers. She has won several awards, including the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Award and a Hedgebrook fellowship.