Susan Gubernat
http://susangubernat.comSusan Gubernat, poet and librettist, is the author of The Zoo at Night (2017), winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry (University of Nebraska Press), Analog House (Finishing Line Press, 2011), and Flesh, winner of the Marianne Moore Prize (Helicon Nine Editions, 1999). Her poems have appeared in CimarronReview, Gargoyle, the Michigan Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Scoundrel Time, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. She wrote the libretto for the opera Korczak’s Orphans, composed by Adam Silverman. Gubernat earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is a professor emerita at California State University, East Bay, and has held artist residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Millay Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.