Susan Bright
Biography

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Susan Bright is author of 19 books of poetry, three of which have been recipients of Austin Book Awards. She is the editor/publisher of Plain view Press, which since 1975 has published 100 books. Her work as a poet, publisher, activist and educator has taken her all over the United States.

In England her poetry has been published in "Iron," edited by Peter Mortimer, "Poetry Street 3" (Longram) and in a small chapbookby Smith/Doorstop Books (The Poetry Business Press).

Her poetry is feminist, grounded in the routines of daily experience and often hilarious. Her two most recent collections, "Tirades And Evidence Of Grace" and "House of the Mother" both won Austin Book Awards.

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In Texas she has received a proclamation from the Senate honoring her literary and community work and in Austin she received the Woman of the Year Award in 1990 from the Austin Women's Political Caucus.

She works in a home studio near Austin's Barton Springs where she is a year around lap swimmer. Although she has a book entitled, "Swimming the English Channel," she has no intention of doing so, in spite of various invitations which have come from an erroneous listing of the book as a sports pubication.

She was founding director of a small press distribution organization in the 70's and 80's in the American Southwest and editor or "Women's Way" a feminist newsletter based on a festival of the same name which took place in the 1980s and 1990s in Central Texas during the month of March, which is Women's History Month in the US.

Her work as a creative process teacher has recently been collected along with the work of eight women writers from various parts of the United States in an anthology entitled, "Wind Eyes--A Women's Reader and Writing Source." Wind Eyes--A Woman's Reader and Writing Source