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SUZANNE HIGHLAND (she/they) is a queer, Southern poet, essayist, educator, and wildlife rehabilitator. Suzanne’s work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize, and it appears or is forthcoming in Apogee Journal, Works & Days, The Journal, Nat. Brut, A Velvet Giant, and in the anthology Home is Where You Queer Your Heart from Foglifter Press, among others. Suzanne is also the voice behind Mortal Lives, an essay series about ecology, money, death and birds. Suzanne’s work has received support from Art Farm, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, the 92nd Street Y, Brooklyn Poets, Florida State University, and Hunter College, where Suzanne received the Miriam Weinberg Richter Award upon graduating with an MFA in poetry in 2016. Suzanne lives in Brooklyn and at suzannehighland.com.
