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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Suzan Jantz graduated summa cum laude with honors from California State University, Chico with a BA in English, a minor in creative writing, and a certificate in literary editing and publishing.
Her writing has appeared in Calyx: A Journal of Literary Art By Women; The Rectangle; The Studium; The Suisun Valley Review; Sinister Wisdom; and Watershed. She was one of two finalists in Inkwell’s 10th annual poetry competition judged by Alice Quinn, poetry editor for The New Yorker.
Among some of her other honors, Suzan has been the recipient of two grants from The Research and Creativity Foundation at California State University, Chico; the Ellen L. Walker Prize for outstanding work in literary editing and publishing; and the Charles S. and Marie Felver Prize for outstanding English student at CSU, Chico.
Suzan—not necessarily in this order—lives, edits, hikes, bikes, kayaks, rides horseback, and writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction in the mountains of northern California. She travels frequently with her partner and four amazing mixed breed dogs. They also share thirty acres with two horses, three cats, and an abundance of other incredible wildlife.
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
-Arundhati Roy from The End of Imagination