Susan Gevirtz lives in San Francisco. Her books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street, 2010); BROADCAST (Trafficker, 2010); Thrall (Post Apollo, 2007); Hourglass Transcripts (Burning Deck, 2001); Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim (a+bend, 1999); Black Box Cutaway (Kelsey Street, 1999); Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang, 1996); PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA (Potes and Poets, 1994; reissue Little Red Leaves, 2009); Taken Place (Reality Street, 1993); Linen minus (Avenue B, 1992); and Domino: point of entry (Leave Books, 1992).

Many of Gevirtz's essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. She was an assistant professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, and currently teaches in the MA Program in Visual and Critical Studies and the MFA Program in Writing at California College of the Arts; the MFA in Writing programs at The University of San Francisco, Mills College, and San Francisco State University; and at The Hellenic International School of the Arts, Paros, Greece.

Gevirtz was an associate editor of HOW(ever), a journal of modernist/innovative directions in women's poetry and scholarship, and served on the editorial advisory boards of the journal Avec and the online journal HOW2.

She received the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in Literature in the spring of 2000. She has collaborated with interdisciplinary artist Margaret Tedesco and sound artist Andrew Klobucar of Bay Area–based The Lab in 2001. Her play Motion Picture Home was performed as part of a Poet's Theatre event in the winter of 2002. A collaboration with sound artist/musician Scanner (aka Robin Rimbaud) resulted in an audio piece called “Aerodrome Orion” in 2006.

Gevirtz currently co-organizes the annual translation and conversation meeting of The Paros Symposium with Greek poet Siarita Kouka. (See website listed below.)

MA (classical literature and philosophy), Gevirtz attended St. John’s Graduate Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she earned her master's in classical literature and philosophy. Other areas of specialty include literary theory, poetics, gender studies, and cultural theory.

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Adjunct Professor, Visual and Critical Studies
Adjunct Professor, Fine Arts

MA, St. Johns Graduate Institute; PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Contact: sgevirtz@cca.edu

Website: www.parossymposium.com