Susan McCabe is a professor at the University of Southern California in LA, teaching poetics and creative writing, and has directed the PhD program in Creative Writing. She has two books of poetry, one the award-winning Descartes’ Nightmare (Univ. of Utah Press, 2008), two critical books, Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss, and Cinematic Modernism, and a “bi-bio,” H.D & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism (Oxford, 2021). Susan is currently working on a book of poems, I Woke a Lake. Her reviews appear recently in LARB and Denver Quarterly.