Recent Books

Novel
Record Palace
Record Palace is an astonishment. Susan Wheeler's deft touch and flawless ear have produced an irresistable work, both fresh and sage. - Toni Morrison
Poetry
Ledger
"Susan Wheeler's narrative glamour finds occasions in unlikely places: hardware stores, Herodotus, Hollywood Squares, Flemish paintings, green stamps, and echoes of archaic and cyber speech. What at first seems cacophonous comes in the end to seem invested with a mournful dignity: that of 'the jangling discourse of our nation.' Ledger is a treasure map for those willing to understand the journey." - John Ashbery
Source Codes
A "project" book of poetry, interspersing Susan Wheeler's informal collages with poems
Smokes
Susan Wheeler's second collection of poetry, with an afterword by U.S. poet laureate Robert Hass.

Biography

Susan Wheeler is the author of a novel, Record Palace, and four books of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds, Smokes, Source Codes, and Ledger. Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in eight editions of Best American Poetry, as well as in The Paris Review, New American Writing, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. On the creative writing faculties at Princeton University, she has also taught at the University of Iowa, NYU, Rutgers, and Columbia University.

Susan Wheeler grew up in Minnesota and New England, and has lived in the New York area for twenty years.