About
Susan Hunter
“In these poems of remembrance, Susan Hunter steadfastly names her most vital connections — to ancestors and to family, to places that provided orientation, to friends, and to the spirits in nature. “
— Ron Slate, author, Joy Ride and editor of “On the Seawall”
Susan Hunter is the author of the poetry collection Do We Ever Stay? and the chapbook, Unfinished Spaces. Her poems traverse a lifetime of change, transition, joy and loss. They touch on childhood memories — a robin’s egg balanced on a blade of grass . . . a mourning dove outside her grandmother’s dining room, and also on the poignancy of lost love in a foggy island landscape and the echoes of children’s voices riding the winds of the New England coast.
Her poems have appeared in print and online publications, including On the Seawall, One Page Poetry Anthology, American Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Saranac Journal, the Chaffin Journal, Poem and Illya’s Honey.
She was an award-winner in the Plymouth (MA) Poetry Contest in 2020 and a finalist in the American Literary Review Awards. She was a general contributor at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2016.
Her verse has been featured on Cape & Islands NPR radio and the Local Seen, the Community Access Television station in Plymouth, MA.
A graduate of Middlebury College and New York University, Susan has been writing poetry all her adult life as she pursued careers in the book publishing and newspaper fields and raised three daughters. She’s been a journalist for weekly newspapers in Connecticut and Massachusetts and lives in Plymouth, MA with her husband.