Susan Auerbach

Catching Fire: Poetry and Fiction on the 2025 Wildfires, May 2 1:00 - 2:00pm

Susan Auerbach is a retired professor of education who returned in midlife to her first love of creative writing. Her poems have appeared in her chapbook, "In the Mourning Grove" (Finishing Line Press, 2024); in Rattle, Spillway, Gyroscope Review, and other journals; in "Art in the Time of COVID-19" (2020), "Catching Fire" (2025) and other anthologies; and in her memoir, "I’ll Write Your Name on Every Beach: A Mother’s Quest for Comfort, Courage & Clarity After Suicide Loss" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017). She lives in Altadena, CA, with her husband, dogs, and chickens.