ABOUT

Susana Praver-Pérez is a Pushcart nominated poet and a winner of  the San Francisco Foundation/Nomadic Press Literary Prize for Poetry (2021). Born and raised in New York, Susana currently resides in Oakland, California where she works as a Physician Assistant at La Clínica de la Raza. 

Susana has studied Creative Writing at: Naropa Institute’s Summer Poetics program, U.C. Berkeley’s Poetry for the People, at countless workshops including Las Dos Brujas, and at Berkeley City College from which she holds a Certificate in Creative Writing/Poetry.

Susana’s poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies.  

Hurricanes, Love Affairs and Other Disasters, published by Nomadic Press (June 2021), is her first full-length book of poetry.