Suzanne Roberts (born October 2, 1970) is an American poet, travel writer, and photographer.
Suzanne Roberts was born in New York City to a British mother and Jewish father. She grew up in Southern California and currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California. She is the author of a collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other difficulties (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), the memoir in travel essays, Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), and the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, as well as four collections of poetry, Shameless (2007), Nothing to You (2008), Three Hours to Burn a Body: Poems on Travel (2011) and Plotting Temporality (2012). [1]
Roberts was named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic's Traveler, [2] and her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Atlanta Review, The Fourth River , Matador, National Geographic's Intelligent Traveler, and National Geographic's Traveler. She received an "Honorable Mention" in the "Best Free Poetry Contest" in 2011 for her poems The Casualties of War and A Soldier's Making. [3]
Roberts holds degrees in Biology and English from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a doctorate in English with an emphasis in Literature and the Environment from University of Nevada, Reno. [4] She is on the MFA low residency faculty at UNR-Tahoe.