Contact Information

Office: 4133 JFSB

Phone: 422-2363

E-mail: susan_howe@byu.edu

Susan Howe is a creative writer specializing in poetry and play writing. She teaches creative writing, contemporary American poetry, and women's literature. Her secondary teaching interest is nineteenth-century British literature. All her classes require considerable student participation.

She publishes as Susan Elizabeth Howe, and her poems have recently appeared in Poetry, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and several other journals. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published by the Redd Center for Western Studies in 1997.

Three of her plays dealing with Mormon experience have been produced at Brigham Young University: Burdens of Earth (Pardoe, 1987 and Margetts, 2002), Voices of the Sisters (Marriott Center, BYU Women's Conference Opening Session, 1991), and A Dream for Katy: A Celebration of Early Mormon Women (DeJong Concert Hall, BYU Women's Conference, 1992). With Marie Cornwall she also edited the book Women of Wisdom and Knowledge (1990), a compilation of speeches from the BYU Women's Conference. In 2004 Professor Howe co-edited the book Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, which was also made into a play and released as a DVD by BYU Studies.

Her current research projects include work on Virginia Sorensen and May Swenson. Her creative projects include writing and publishing more poems, compiling a second collection, and writing new plays.

She lives in Ephraim in an idyllic natural setting with her husband, Cless Young.

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