Suzanne Buffam

Visiting Assistant Professor
Biography

Fall 2016

Suzanne Buffam is the author of three collections of poetry, A Pillow Book (Canarium, 2016), The Irrationalist (Canarium, 2010), and Past Imperfect (House of Anansi, 2005). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she received her Masters of English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Bomb, jubilat, A Public Space, and The Boston Review. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jeannette Heian Ballard Writers’ Trust, and the Canada Council for the Arts, she lives in Chicago.

Research areas
  • Poetry
Portrait of Suzanne Buffam