Susan Gardner

Susan Gardner is a poet and visual artist, new to Bainbridge Island since the fall of 2022. She is the author of seven books and has appeared in numerous anthologies. She delivered the Cam Memorial Lecture at the New York Public Library, where she was honored to be granted a year in the Allen Room. She has presented extensive lectures and readings including at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Folger Library.

In her newest book of poetry, Love and the Weather, Susan Gardner offers a lyrical inter-weaving of intimate human attachment and the fragile majesty of nature. In the clearest of poetic terms, she alludes to parallels and symbiotic connections between the two, with either capable of enhancing or harming the other. With evocative descriptions and imagery, and the poetic recasting of familiar language and phenomena, the author speaks of loss and re-birth, natural cycles, and love in its numerous forms.

For more information, visit her website, www.susangardner.org