Susan J Erickson

Susan J. Erickson sometimes calls herself an “accidental poet.” After vowing to stop talking about writing a long-intended mystery novel, she enrolled in a poetry correspondence course offered by Western Washington University reasoning that even an alternate genre would stimulate writing. It did. That course led to others and poetry is now her genre of choice.

Susan grew up in the Midwest in a Garrison Keillor setting. She attended the University of Minnesota, earning a B.S. and M.S. She now lives in Bellingham, Washington, and marvels at living on the edge of the sea under the looming presence of an active volcano.

Erickson’s first full-length collection, Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine, won the Brick Road Poetry Prize. Kathleen Flenniken, former Washington State Poet Laureate, calls the book an “irresistible and overflowing fountain of witty, sparling and sensitive poems in voices.”

Please visit her website for more information and to sample her poems: https://susanjerickson.com.