Suzanne S. Rancourt

Suzanne S. Rancourt is a poet, writer, and multimodal expressive arts therapist of Abenaki/Huron descent. Her books of poetry include Songs of Archilochus (Unsolicited Press, 2023); Old Stones, New Roads (Main Street Rag, 2021); murmurs at the gate (Unsolicited Press, 2019), which won the 2023 Poetry of Modern Conflict Award; and Billboard in the Clouds (Curbstone Books, 2004), which won the 2001 Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award for poetry and went into its second printing at Northwestern University Press in 2019. 

Her work has been included in several anthologies, including Women Speak, Volume 9 (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024), A Body You Talk To: An Anthology of Contemporary Disability (Sundress Publications, 2023), Writing the Land: Maine (NatureCulture, 2022), Mizmor Anthology (Poetica Publishing Company, 2020), Native Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversations (Tupelo Press, 2019), and Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), among others. 

Rancourt has graduate degrees and certifications in psychology, creative writing, and drug and alcohol recovery.