SWWIM sustains and celebrates women poets by connecting creatives across generations and by curating a living archive of contemporary poetry, while solidifying Miami as a nexus for the literary arts.

Looking at a photograph of a person looking out a window at Mt. St. Helens years after eruption

 

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Suzanne Edison’s first full length book, Since the House Is Burning, by MoonPath Press was published in 2022 and was a First Finalist in the Poetry Society of Virginia book contest. Her chapbook, The Body Lives Its Undoing, was published in 2018. Poetry can be found in Naugatuck River Review, Lily Poetry Review, MER, JAMA, Whale Road Review, and elsewhere. She is a 2019 Hedgebrook alum and teaches writing workshops through UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

 

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