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Winner of the 2003 Distinguished Artist Award from the Nebraska Arts Council, poet SUSAN AIZENBERG's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many journals, including Prairie Schooner, AGNI, Blackbird, The Journal, Laurel Review, Passages North, Third Coast, Chelsea, the Journal, ONTHEBUS, and the Prague Review. Her first collection, Peru, appeared in Graywolf's Take Three: Agni New Poets Series, which as been chosen as a "Recommended Book" by both the Poetry and Small Press editors of Amazon.com, and as a "Noted Book" by American Poet. She is the author more recently of Muse (Southern Illinois UP), a book-length collection that won the Nebraska Book Award for Poetry and the Larry Levis Prize for 2003. She's a two-time winner of the Individual Artist's Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council (1997, 2000). She holds the MFA in creative writing from Vermont College and has taught at the University of Nebraska — Omaha. She served as Poetry Editor of The Nebraska Review for ten years and later as Contributing Editor. She is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Creighton University, where she directs the Creative Writing Program. With Erin Belieu, she is the editor of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia University Press, 2001).