Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts is the author of a collection of lyrical essays, Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (2022),​ a travel memoir in essays Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (2020), and the National Outdoor Book Award-winning memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (2012), as well as four books of poems. Named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic's Traveler, Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and included in The Best Women's Travel Writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and teaches in the low residency MFA program in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe.