About

Susan Barba is the editor of American Wildflowers: A Literary Field Guide (2022), winner of the 2023 American Horticultural Society award, and the author of Fair Sun (2017) and geode (2020), a finalist for the New England Book Awards and the Massachusetts Book Awards. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and her poems have been translated into Armenian, German, Romanian, and Swedish. She works as a senior editor for New York Review Books.