Susan Carol Hauser : Dept of English - Bemidji State University

Susan Carol Hauser
Professor of English
Department Chair
Office: HS 330
Phone: 218.755.3355
email: shauser@bemidjistate.edu
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Why Serve on an Editorial Board?

Most writers are also readers - they read for the love it, and to feed their writing. When they serve on an editorial board for a literary anthology, they learn another way to read: they learn to read for the sake of the work itself. Their response to a piece might start with "I like this" or “I don’t care for this,” but in the end they also have to ask "is this right for the publication even if I don't care much for it," or "is it not right, even though I love it." An interesting thing happens as an editorial board works through submissions: the publication, whether a magazine or an anthology, becomes a work of art in itself. Members of the editorial board learn how to sense that, how to honor it, how to bring the publication to its highest point of completion. It is an act of work and an act of love, and it comes with all of the troubles and satisfactions that those acts bring to us in our lives outside the page.

Susan Carol Hauser

Biography

Susan Carol Hauser is an essayist and poet, and a teacher of writing in the English Department at Bemidji State University in Northern Minnesota. Her books on natural history, literary nonfiction and poetry are available at bookstores and on the INTRaART web site.

Education

M.F.A. in Poetry, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
M.A. in English, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan

Research, Presentations, and Publications

Wild Rice Cooking: History, Natural History, Harvesting, and Lore, Lyons Press, (November 2004)
Outside After Dark, Loonfeather Press, (2002)
You Can Write a Memoir, Writer's Digest Books, (2001)

Grants and Honors

Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant recipient, 1997
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Charter Resident, 1995
Minnesota Book Award - 2002 Wild Rice Cooking: History, Natural History, Harvesting and Lore , The Lyons Press 2001
Minnesota Book Award - 1989 Meant To Be Read Out Loud , Loonfeather Press 1988