BIO:

Susie D (www.susied.com) is a Boston-area poet with over 150 publications, and a weekly correspondent for the Jewish Advocate, The Cambridge Chronicle, The Cambridge Tab and the Brookline Tab. She won the 2002 Cambridge Poetry Awards’ Best Political Poem Award (for “Viva La Causa, Viva Chavez”) and was nominated for the Best Political Poem Award for 2003.

Her poems appear monthly in Massachusetts Mensa’s The Beacon in “Susie D’s Poetry Corner.” She has written articles for other local newspapers and music magazines including The Beat! and Boston Rock. She fronts a postpunk poetry band, Sound the Word, and moderates the internet discussion group ProgressiveChat@yahoogroups.com. Her first book, “I Refused to Die,” a compilation of the stories of Boston-area Holocaust survivors, is due out in Fall, 2003 from Ibbetson Street Press.

Susie has authored the poetry volumes It’s Only Life – Rhythmic Forays into Politics and Human Nature (1992), After Gary (1996) and Selected Poetry of Susie D (2002). She began and managed JP’s World Stage and Cambridge’s Small Circle of Friends coffeehouses, hosted the poetry show “The Spoken Scene” on WZBC-FM and has performed at First Night Boston, the Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence, CBGB’s in NYC and other locales. She reads poetry at various Boston/Cambridge poetry venues.

She is an active member of the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action and The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.

Her late father, Bernard Davidson, wrote one of the Massachusetts State Songs. She owned and operated My Type, Inc., a Harvard Square typesetting and graphics company, from 1984-92.

Susie can be contacted at Susie_d@yahoo.com or Susie@SusieD.com.