Susan Laughter Meyers
Susan Laughter Meyers is the author of My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass (2013), winner of the Cider Press Review Editors Prize. Her collection Keep and Give Away (University of South Carolina Press, 2006) was selected by poet Terrance Hayes for the SC Poetry Book Prize. It subsequently won the SIBA Book Award for Poetry and the Brockman-Campbell Book Award. Her poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Crazyhorse. She has received fellowships from the SC Academy of Authors and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA). She is a past president of the poetry societies of both North and South Carolina.