Suzanne Ondrus’ poetry books Passion Seeds and Death of an Unvirtuous Woman deal with history, foreign cultures, women’s sexuality, racism, identity, and domestic violence serve as platforms for discussion of these taboo topics. She was the 2013 Reed Magazine Markham Poetry Prize winner, a 2017 featured UNESCO World Book Capital poet in Guinea, Conakry, and a 2018-2020 Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso. She presently lives in Bogota. Hear her read her poems on her YouTube channel.
Books
Selected work
Darning the Space of Our Memory: From Burkina to America to Benin
Gordon Square Review, 2022
“The Power of the Pen”, “Wood County News, 1882”, and “Tarred & Feathered by the Wood County News”
S/tick, 2019
The Structure Inside
Contemporary Verse 2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing, 2013
“For You, Who Have No Desire For Me”
Reed Magazine, 2014
“Diese Zeit”
The Five and Two: Crime Poetry Weekly, 2022
“And the Children Sing Mr. Carl Bach”
The Five and Two: Crime Poetry Weekly, 2022
Shadow Shifter
Zoetic Press, 2025
Fruit Withheld, Fully Colored Green, On Stage, Scratching Back, Self Possession, Seven Yesterdays and Todays, A Significant Reason, A Single Breath,
Frigg, 2009
To Be Your Love
Hedge Apple Magazine, 2025
‘Sex on Moto’, ‘The Moto’s Cubby Hole’, ‘Ouaga Cowboys’ & ‘Catching Up With Friends’ — THE WORD'S FAIRE
The World's Faire, 2025