Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts' books include the collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (2022), the award-winning memoir in travel essays, Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (2020), the memoir, Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award) and as well as the poetry collections Shameless, Nothing to You, Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel, and Plotting Temporality. National Geographic's Traveler magazine named Roberts "The Next Great Travel Writer," and her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and teaches for the low residency MFA program in creative writing at Sierra Nevada University. More information may be found on her website: www.suzanneroberts.net or follow her on Instagram: @suzanneroberts28