Poet, playwright, and a founding editor of IKON magazine, SUSAN SHERMAN has published seven collections of poetry. She has had twelve plays produced off-off Broadway. Her translation of Shango de Ima (Doubleday) won eleven AUDELCO awards for the Nuyorican Poets Cafe production.
Her critically acclaimed memoir, America’s Child: A Woman’s Journey through the Radical Sixties (Curbstone) was published in 2007 and her book of selected poems, The Light that Puts an End to Dreams (Wings Press, 2012) with an introduction by Margaret Randall and photographs by Joséphine Sacabo, is a mixture of intense political poetry, intimate love poems and provocative reflections.
Her latest Book, NIRVANA ON NINTH STREET (Wings Press, 2014) “a sunning evocation of the countercultural life of the East Village” is a collection of inter-related stories that take place in the East Village/Lower East Side in and around the 1960s.
Among her many awards are a NYFA fellowship for creative nonfiction, a NYFA Fellowship in poetry and a Puffin Foundation Grant.