Susan Dines is a poet, children’s book author, and recent MFA graduate from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly, Kestrel, Slab, Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine, Comstock Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded scholarships from the Bennington Writing Seminars and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. Dines’s writing was chosen as the 2023 University of Iowa Hawkeye Haiku contest winner, shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize, and placed third in both the 2021 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards and 2025 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Late Arrival is her debut poetry collection.
Paperback: 72 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 21, 2025)