Suzanne LummisSuzanne Lummis was the 5th recipient of Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center's George Drury Smith Award for Excellence in Poetry and a 2018/19 City of Los Angeles Fellow, an endowment to artists and writers enabling them to create a new body of work. he is among the few who've defined the poem noir, and poetry.la produces her series on film noir and contemporary poetry, "They Write by Night" featuring poems by poets local and national. In 2023 she guest-edited a special Noir issue of the international publication Pratik, which features poetry, fiction, non-fiction and essays exploring noir subject matter in the noir style. Last year, the Los Angeles Times named her poem, "Really Mystic River", one of 14 essential Los Angeles "poems or collections of poetry" in its article "The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf." She's published three poetry collections, Idiosyncrasies, In Danger, and Open 24 Hours; the last a winner of the Blue Lynx Prize, and published by Blue Lynx Press, and her poems have appeared in literary publications across the country and in The New Yorker. Her phone calls to Linda J. Albertano and Laurel Ann Bogen with the suggestion "Let's join forces and make something happen" led to the founding of Nearly Fatal Women. Read More Read Less