Susana H. Case

Susana H. Case, Ph. D., is the author of ten books of poetry. Matinée Girls, from Broadstone Books (2026), is her newest. The Damage Done, from Broadstone Books, won a Pinnacle Award for Best Poetry Book. Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books (2020), also won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book, as well as a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite, and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Drugstore Blue, from Five Oaks Press, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes. The Scottish Café was reprinted as an English-Polish edition by the University of Opole Press and as an English-Ukrainian edition by Slapering Hol Press. Case’s poems appear in Calyx, The Cortland Review, Fourteen Hills, Hanging Loose, Portland Review, Potomac Review, Rattle, and RHINO, among others. Aside from Polish and Ukrainian, she has been published via translation into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Case is co-editor, with Margo Taft Stever, of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk and Cake Press (2022) which was a finalist for an American Book Fest award and a International Book Award in the anthology category and was Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is co-editor with Margo Taft Stever and Sandra Yannone of Unsinkable: Poems Inspired by the Titanic, Salmon Poetry, 2026.