Susan McCabeSusan McCabe was born on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has taught in Oregon and Arizona, and received her PhD at UCLA. She also taught and conducted research in her mother's country of Sweden. She teaches at the University of Southern California. he directed the PhD in Literature and Creative Writing Program at USC (2006-2009), and has acted as President of the Modernist Studies Association. She is the author of six books, including two critical studies-'Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss' (Penn State University Press, 1994) and 'Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry and Film' (Cambridge University Press, 2005)-and two poetry volumes, 'Swirl' (Red Hen Press, 2003), and 'Descartes' Nightmare' (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali prize and published by Utah University Press in 2008). She is also the author of a bi-biography of a modernist poet and writer pair, 'An Untold Love Story: H.D. & Bryher' (Oxford 2021). Most recently, McCabe's new poetry book, 'I Woke A Lake' (2025), has been published by The Center for Literary Publishing (CLP) at Colorado State University (CSU). Read More Read Less