Art Editor

Susan L. Miller is the author of Carnaval (Slant Books, 2026) and Communion of Saints (Paraclete Press, 2017) and has poems in the anthologies Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry), and St. Peter’s B-List: Contemporary Poems Inspired by the Saints (Ave Maria Press, 2014). She has published poetry in Iowa Review, Meridian, Commonweal, Image, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and others. She teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

Susan studied poetry at the University of Virginia and New York University, in many institutions in New York City, including the 92nd Street Y, Poets House, and the Continuing Education department at the New School, and was a student of Gregory Orr, Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Agha Shahid, Mark Doty, and Marie Ponsot. She has studied La Crónica with Javier Sinay and the personal essay with Emily Bernard, and continues to study and teach poetry and nonfiction.

She is the personal assistant to Mark Doty, and with Doty, she runs an online program for poets. She has also taught at The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University and served as the Writer-in-Residence for the National College Preaching in Action Conference.

Susan has spent much of her adult life traveling in Mexico, studying fine and folk art and examining the relationship between death and Mexican art practices. She is currently writing a nonfiction book about death in Mexican art and culture and has spent time discussing art and film practices with Mexican artists and scholars including photographer Graciela Iturbide, filmmaker Demetrio Bilbatua, and art historian, translator, and writer Claudia Canales.