Sue Ellen Thompson
Sue Ellen Thompson is the author of six books of poetry: This Body of Silk (Northeastern University Press), The Wedding Boat (Owl Creek Press), The Leaving: New & Selected Poems (Autumn House Press), The Golden Hour (Autumn House Press), They (Turning Point Books), and Sea Nettles: New & Selected Poems (Grayson Books). Winner of the Samuel French Morse Prize, the Pablo Neruda/Nimroad Hardman Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Robert Frost Fellowship at The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, she lives on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake and is an instructor at The Writer’s Center in Washington, DC. She has received two Individual Artist’s Grants from the state of CT, a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and the Maryland Author Award. A graduate of Middlebury Collete (BA) and The Bread Loaf School of English (MA), she also edited the first edition of The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry.
