Mormon Literature Database - Howe, Susan Elizabeth

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	Susan Elizabeth Howe Susan Elizabeth Howe is a contributing editor of Tar River Poetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Letters award in poetry for 1998. She has just completed a second collection of poems with Florida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with a Landscape (forthcoming). Susan lives with her husband Cless Young and their three aging dogs in Ephraim, far enough away from the Wasatch Front to be a peaceful haven she can escape to when she’s not teaching. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 107-8] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets View Works by this Person
Also Known As	Susan Howe
Education	B.A., Brigham Young University M.A., University of Utah Ph.D., Denver University
Career	A professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University, her major areas of interest include contemporary American poetry, women's literature, and modern and contemporary drama. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has also published stories and plays, and she has been editor of Exponent II and The Denver Quarterly and poetry editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She lives with her husband in Ephraim, Utah.
Awards	Her collection of poetry, Stone Spirits (1996) won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize in 1996 and the Association for Mormon Letters Award in poetry.

Works by Susan Elizabeth Howe Sort by title	Year	Genre
Sunstone Magazine and Twenty Years of Contemporary Mormon Poetry	2002	Criticism
Virginia Sorensen's A Little Lower Than the Angels and John A. Widtsoe: A Lesson in Literary History	2002	Criticism
"I Do Remember How It Smelled Heavenly": Mormon Aspects of May Swenson's Poetry	1996	Criticism
The Moral Imagination	1996	Criticism
"Little Books" from a Large Soul: The Private Poetry of Virginia Sorensen	1994	Criticism
The Creative Process	2006	Interview / Panel
The Works of Terry Tempest Williams	1998	Interview / Panel
When Mormon Literature Becomes "Mormon": A Panel with Scott Abbott, Susan Elizabeth Howe, B. W. Jorgensen, and Brian Evenson, Moderated by Marni Asplund-Campbell	1996	Interview / Panel
Exponent II and the Excellence of Women	1995	Personal Essay
Our Mothers' Love	1984	Personal Essay
On Turning Thirty		Personal Essay
Coming to Birth	2004	Poetry
Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women	2004	Poetry Anthology
Of the Beginning	2004	Poetry
The Pill on the Carpet	2004	Poetry
Deer Pass Through Dusk	2003	Poetry
Letter to my Husband, Sent from Ireland	2003	Poetry
"A Large, American Gallinaceous Bird"	2002	Poetry
Utah: Five Sacred Lessons	2002	Poetry
"Your Luck Is About to Change"	2002	Poetry
Capitol Reef, New Year's Eve, 1999	2001	Poetry
The Dogs of Raramouchi	2001	Poetry
Will You Leave Utah?	2001	Poetry
Deep Canyon, Late Night	2000	Poetry
For You I Believe in God	2000	Poetry
The Girl with a Bow in Her Hair Curtseys	2000	Poetry
A Scholar Tries to Get to Millegeville	2000	Poetry
Gringa	1999	Poetry
Mountains Behind Her	1998	Poetry
Untitled [I had no saints, so I turned]	1998	Poetry
Untitled [In my Mormon town, a girl surprised]	1998	Poetry
Untitled [In seventh grade, I was five-feet-ten]	1998	Poetry
Alternatives to Winter	1997	Poetry
Appetites	1997	Poetry
ArchAngel	1997	Poetry
The Death of a Guppy	1997	Poetry
Flying at Night	1997	Poetry
Freak Accident Claims Rhino	1997	Poetry
Mary Keeps All These Things	1997	Poetry
The Real Thing	1997	Poetry
Stone Spirits	1997	Poetry Collection
Telephoning China	1997	Poetry
Tiger Eating a European	1997	Poetry
To the Maker of These Petroglyphs	1997	Poetry
What Takes Place of the Body	1997	Poetry
The Wisdom of the Pyrotechnician	1997	Poetry
Another Autumn	1995	Poetry
Feeding	1995	Poetry
Sexual Evolution	1995	Poetry
We Live in a Roadside Motel	1995	Poetry
Fighting with My Mother	1994	Poetry
The Gathering of Peace	1994	Poetry
In the Cemetery, Studying Embryos	1994	Poetry
A Prayer for Iris	1994	Poetry
Canyonlands	1993	Poetry
Insomniac	1993	Poetry
Liberty Enlightening the World: The Statue Has Her Say	1993	Poetry
On Losing My Camera Below Dead Horse Point	1993	Poetry
To a Recreational Parachutist	1993	Poetry
I Am Watching Four Canada Geese	1992	Poetry
Lessons of Erosion	1992	Poetry
Ovum	1992	Poetry
Sophia Whispers	1992	Poetry
The Girl with the Mandolin	1991	Poetry
Mantis	1991	Poetry
Mountain Psalm	1991	Poetry
Night Jogging in the City	1991	Poetry
To a Marathon Runner	1991	Poetry
Nor Am I Who I Was Then	1990	Poetry
To My Brother in His Casket	1990	Poetry
The Big Tradition	1989	Poetry
The Paleontologist with an Ear Infection	1989	Poetry
The Stolen Television Set	1989	Poetry
Things in the Night Sky	1989	Poetry
To my Great-great Grandmother, Written on a Flight to Salt Lake City	1989	Poetry
The Woman Whose Brooch I Stole	1989	Poetry
Why I Am a Witch	1988	Poetry
Summer Days, a Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe	1987	Poetry
The Covenant		Poetry
Flowering		Poetry
Snow Advice from the Basketball Coach		Poetry
Transmutation		Poetry
Wind		Poetry
Getting to Disneyland	1990	Short Story
Women of Wisdom and Knowledge: Talks Selected from the BYU Women's Conferences	1990	Speech Collection