Susan M. Schultz

Who is Susan M. Schultz?

Susan M. Schultz is an American poet, critic, publisher and English professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She specializes in modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She moved from Virginia to Honolulu in 1990.

She was born in Belleville, Illinois, and lives in Kāne'ohe, Hawaii. She is author of three collections of poems, Aleatory Allegories, Memory Cards & Adoption Papers And then something happened, a critical book, A Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry, and editor of The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Her poetry chapbooks include Another Child, Earthquake Dreams, Voice-overs, and Addenda.

In 1995, Susan M. Schultz founded Tinfish Press, a paper and electronic journal and publisher of experimental poetry from the Pacific region, and of a series of Tinfish Network chapbooks. Authors published include Barbara Jane Reyes, Yunte Huang and Linh Dinh. Ron Silliman has written about her: