Susan Okie
Susan Okie’s poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, The Bellevue Literary Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Cider Press Review, and other journals. A chapbook, Let You Fly, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2018. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is a doctor, a poet and a former Washington Post medical reporter and science editor. She lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland. Her collection Woman at the Crossing was selected by Garrett Hongo as winner of the 2023 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. It will publish in October and will be her first full-length poetry collection.
“Woman at the Crossing reads like a continuous, lyric portrayal of a life of intense and diverse experiences written by an unflinching existentialist, a spiritualist of absence. For all the rough and heart-rending events chronicled here, the reach for consolation is not through any convention of belief or sentiment, but in the stark, imagistic captures of travail gathered from the passionate witnessing of human survival within creation’s natural splendors.”
