Susan M. Schultz


Susan M. Schultz is an American poet, critic, publisher and English professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She specializes in modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing. She moved from Virginia to Honolulu in 1990.
She was born in Belleville, Illinois, and lives in Kāne'ohe, Hawaii. She is author of three collections of poems, , Memory Cards & Adoption Papers , a critical book, , and editor of . Her poetry chapbooks include Another Child, Earthquake Dreams, Voice-overs, and Addenda.
In 1995, Susan M. Schultz founded , a paper and electronic journal and publisher of experimental poetry from the Pacific region, and of a series of Tinfish Network chapbooks. Authors published include Barbara Jane Reyes, Yunte Huang and Linh Dinh. Ron Silliman has written about her:

Schultz is somebody who really gets it as to how parables work & what their potential might be for writing. First, her poems have the precision of the best analytic philosophy. Second, she understands that the dynamics of the parable must play out in the referential world. Typically, poets who focus on the latter forget the importance of the former & a few of those who get the former tend to neglect the gears of causality in the latter. Schultz gets all of it & does so with a wit & tenderness that made me stop just to wonder at it all.

Schultz has also published critical articles and review essays on Hart Crane, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ann Lauterbach, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others.
In 1992 she was made president of Hawai'i Literary Arts Council.