Susan Wheeler | Mel Edelman
Susan Wheeler is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Meme from the University of Iowa Press, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and a novel, Record Palace, published by Graywolf Press. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University.
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