Susan
Ludvigson
330 Marion Street
Rock Hill, SC 29730
803 328-9207
Books
of Poetry
Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems. LSU
Press, 2000
Trinity, LSU Press, 1996
Helle’s Story. Duende Press, 1995
Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming
LSU Press, 1993
To Find The Gold, LSU Press, Spring 1990
The Beautiful Noon of No Shadow, LSU Press, 1986
Defining the Holy, Iron Mountain Press, 1985
The Swimmer, LSU Press, 1984
Intro 13, Ed., Associated Writing Program, 1982
Northern Lights, LSU Press, 1981
The Wisconsin Women, a chapbook, Porch Publications, 1980
Step Carefully in Night Grass, John F. Blair, Publisher, 1974
Poems in some 80 journals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Nation,
Paris Review, Southern Review, Ohio Review, The Georgia Review, Antioch
Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Gettysburg Review
Poems in various anthologies, including Strongly Spent, Poetry 180, The Morrow Anthology of Younger American
Poets, The Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Bear
Crossings, Contemporary Poets of North Carolina, The Ohio Review Ten Year
Retrospective, Keener Sounds; The Made Thing(1st
and 2nd editions), The New
Geography of Poets, Love Poems by Women, Vital Signs: Contemporary Poetry from
the University Presses, Buck and Wing, The Yellow Shoe Poets, The Language We
Eat is Things to Eat, 46 Contemporary Poets of South Carolina
Essays in Ohio Review, 1995
and 1998; Facing the Lion: Writers on Life and Craft, 1996; 21st ,
A Journal of Contemporary Photography, 2000,
2001.
COURSES TAUGHT
Poetry Workshops (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Modern American Poetry
(Undergraduate and Graduate)
Contemporary American Poetry (Undergraduate and Graduate)
American Women Poets (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Honors Seminar: The Creative Process in the Arts (Undergraduate and
Graduate)
The Intuitive Way of Knowing (Core course in Master of Liberal
Arts Program)
Freshman composition
University of South Carolina 1974-1976
American Literature
Studied Poetry with James Dickey
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
M.A.Ed. 1973
Major: English
Distinguished Alumnus, 1988
Alumni Hall of Fame, 1991
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
B.S., 1965
Majors: English and Psychology
Graduated with Special Academic Honors
Academic Employment
1986 to present—Professor of English, Winthrop University
1980-1985 Associate
Professor of English, Winthrop University
1978-1980, Assistant Professor of English, Winthrop University
1975-1978, Instructor of English, Winthrop University
Professional Involvement
Regular participant (1975-1983) either as panelist,
reader, or
chairperson
at regional professional meetings: SAMLA,
The
Philological Association of the Carolinas, The Major Modern
Writer’s Symposium, and at national meetings of the Associated
Writing
Programs (1986-1997)
Invited guest speaker at
International meetings: Struga Poetry
Festival, Yugoslavia, 1984; International Writers Congress,
Belgrade,Yugoslavia, 1984; Rencontre Quebecoise Internationale
des Ecrivains, 1986,
1992, and 1996; First International
Conference of Women Writers, Paris, 1989; Bienniale
Internationale de Poesie, Liege, Belgium, 1992
Served on three NEA panels, 1992: Audience Development, Literary
Publishing
and Professional Development, and Poetry Fellowship;
served as one of three national judges, appointed by the poet
laureate
of the U.S., for the Theodore Roethke Award, 1996
Intro
Awards Poetry Judge for 1991
Poetry
readings at colleges and universities throughout the
U.
S., as well as in the foreign countries mentioned above.
Served
as coordinator of Winthrop Writers’ Conference, 1976-1982
Served
as one of two poetry editors for Intro 13, the anthology
of the Associated Writing Programs
Honors and Awards
Selected for Billy Collins’ Poetry
180 Project, published 2003
Featured on Garrison Keillor’s
Writer’s Almanac, 2001
Poet in Residence, University of
South Carolina, Spring 2000
Participation in “A Millennial Gathering of
Writers of the New South”
at Vanderbilt University, Spring 2000
Selected
to read at the Library of Congress, 1995
Represented South Carolina in NEA’s Writing America project
Gettysburg Review award for best poem published in 1995
Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, 1984
Rockefeller/Bellagio
Fellowship, 1990
Witter
Bynner Fellowship, 1986-87
North
Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984
Writer’s Fulbright to Yugoslavia, 1984
Emily
Clark Balch Award, Virginia Quarterly Review, 1984
Individual Artist’s Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission
1982
Fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Summer,
1979
and 1981) and to The MacDowell Colony (Winter, 1979-1980)
Individual Artist’s Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission,
1978
Individual Artist’s Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, 1976
Young
Memorial Award (North Carolina Poetry Council) for Step
Carefully in Night Grass,
given for best book of poems by a North
Carolinian, 1974
Service to Winthrop
2000-
Curriculum Committee; Community Committee
1996-2000
Assessment Committee; Advisor,
Literary Society
1995-96
Curriculum
Committee, Chair, Recruitment
Committee
1992-1994
Committee
for the M.A. in English; University Community Time Committee
1992-1993
Committee for the M.A. in English; Member,
University Community Time
Committee
Chair, Litfest Planning Committee
1991-1992
Chair, Litfest Planning Committee, Recruitment Committee
1990-1991
Chair, Litfest Planning Committee, Personnel Committee
1989-1990
Chair, English Department Recruitment Committee, Chair, Litfest Planning
Committee
1988-1989
Recruitment Committee; Arts and Sciences Committee on Critical Thinking
Forum,
Litfest Planning Committee
1987-88
Chair,
English Department Personnel Committee, Arts and Sciences Tenure and
Promotion Committee
1986-87
Search Committee for English/Drama Chair; Winthrop Women’s Studies
Committee; Arts and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee
Service to
Community
Served regularly (at least 10 years on advisory board of North Carolina
Writers’
Network
Served regularly (at least 8 years) on advisory board of South Carolina
Writers’
Network
Regularly serve on South Carolina Arts Commission panels and in an
advisory
position for selection of other panelists
Co-director of Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Manuscript Contest, 1998--
Charlotte Arts Council panel, 1994
Judging of various regional and national poetry contests