Susan Naramore Maher

Susan Naramore Maher has published widely on the literature of the North American West, on children's literature, and on environmental topics. She is author of Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains (2014) and co-author of Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time (2017), Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley (2012), and Coming Into McPhee Country: John McPhee and the Art of Literary Nonfiction (2003). An accomplished essayist and scholar, she has contributed work to collections like The History of Western American Literature (Cambridge UP 2015), Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art, and Everyday Life (Ashgate 2015), A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West (Wiley-Blackwell 2011), and Western Subjects: Autobiography in the North American West (U of Utah Press 2005). Her work can be found in a plethora of journals, including Western American Literature, Great Plains Quarterly, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Studies in Canadian Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, South Dakota Review, and Journal of the Southwest. She has twice served as President of the Western Literature Association (2001 and 2017 with co-President Dr. Florence Amamato) and served as Vice President and President of the Willa Cather Foundation (2008-2012). Dr. Maher holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently serves as Professor of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth.