About Susie Berg

Susie Berg is the co-curator of the Plasticine Poetry Reading Series. She is the author of the poetry collection, How to Get Over Yourself (Piquant Press, 2013), the chapbook Paper Cuts (CreativeJames Press, 2007), and the blog The Starbucks Poetry Project. Her work has appeared in such journals as carte blanche, Arts Medica, Misunderstandings Magazine, and Switchback, and in the anthologies The Mom Egg Review, Desperately Seeking Susans, and Body and Soul. She is a graduate of the summer writing programs at Humber College (2004, working with Olive Senior) and St. Francis Xavier (2006, working with Anne Simpson and 2007, working with Jeanette Lynes). Forthcoming are two chapbooks:You Will Still Have Birds, a conversation in poetry with Elana Wolff from Lyrical Myrical Press, and Awaiting Butterflies from words(on)pages press. She is also editing an anthology for Oolichan Books to be released in 2016. Visit her online or follow her @SusieDBerg on Twitter.