Susan Coronel
Current City, State, Country
Birth City, State, Country
Biography
Susan Michele Coronel’s first full-length collection of poetry, “In the Needle, A Woman,” was the winner of the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Prize and is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. A two-time Pushcart nominee, Susan has had poems published in numerous journals including Sheila Na Gig, MOM Egg Review, Redivider, Minyan, Of the Book, One Art, Anti-Heroin Chic, TAB Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and Spillway 29. She has work forthcoming in Gone Lawn, Nixes Mate Review, and the Jewish Poets Collective Journal. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s First Poem Award, and in 2022 was one of eight poets to have her work featured in the Aeolian Harp Anthology. In 2023 and 2021 her poems were finalists for the Millennium Writing Awards. Her poems were longlisted for the Sappho Prize in 2023 and 2021. Versions of her book were finalists for Harbor Editions’ Laureate Prize (2021), the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2023), the C&R Press Poetry Award (2023), and the Louise Bogan Award (2024). In 2021 she received a Parent Poet Fellowship for Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing’s summer conference.
Susan holds a post-master’s certificate in early childhood special education from Touro College, an M.S. Ed in Applied Linguistics from Queens College (City University of New York), a B.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from Indiana-University Bloomington, and a post-B.A. certificate in elementary education from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Susan lives in Queens, New York, where she has owned and directed a daycare business for fifteen years. In 2023 Susan was selected to study at the Uriel Weinreich Summer program in Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture, the oldest intensive Yiddish summer program in the world. Besides learning Yiddish, she enjoys yoga, Orange Theory, traveling, reading, hiking and attending museums and cultural activities in New York City.
What is the relationship between Judaism and/or Jewish culture and your poetry?
My Jewish identity finds its way into my creative work in overt and subtle ways. Jewish cultural, religious and historical issues and traditions inform several of my poems.
Author Site
Links to Sample Works
- Of the Book, “Kafka’s Sister’s Braid,” “Girl As Sculpture,” “The Word I wish I wouldn’t Have Landed on is Shmues,” and “The Guardian of the Egg”
- Jewish Writing Project, “First Snow”
- Redivider, “History Brings the Heart to Repent”
- Minyan Magazine, “How Should I Salute the Flag in this Ghost Town Called America?”
- Passengers Journal, “My Younger Daughter Resists Tradition”
- Sheila Na Gig, “Submerged”
- Thimble Literary Magazine, “Spring is Like a Pebble Lodged in My Shoe”
Education
Indiana University-Bloomington, B.A. English, 1991
Massachusetts State College of Liberal Arts, Post-B.A. Certificate in Elementary Education, 1995
City University of New York, M.S. Ed. in Applied Linguistics/Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Touro College, Post-Masters Certificate in Early Childhood Special Education, 2010