About Suzanne Mercury

Suzanne Mercury is a poet whose work lies in the interstices of the natural and metaphysical world. Much of her work is ecological, and her approach to writing poems in many ways models life processes with forms that are organic and responsive.

Change, light, growth, decay, and death are the lifeblood of the natural world and of earth, and her work is a conversation with this.

Her publications include: Sassafracas (Xerolage 69), a collection of visual poems she made using dichroic glass and a laser cutter (2018, Xexoxial Editions), Hand to Earth (2019, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), and Hive (2023, Lily Poetry Review and Press), a book-length poem and her first full-length volume.

Her poetry has appeared in a wide variety of publications including SpoKe, Truck, Summer Stock, Bombay Gin, Sonora Review, Arts & Letters, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, as well as in the anthologies Let the Bucket Down and The Wisdoms of the Universes in a Single String of Letters.

A graduate of Smith College and Syracuse University’s MFA program, she lives in the greater Boston area where she served as an organizer for the Boston Poetry Marathon for eight years.