Columbarium

Susan Stewart (born 1952) is an American poet, literary critic, and translator. She earned degrees from Dickinson College (BA), Johns Hopkins University (MA), and the University of Pennsylvania (PhD), and is Avalon Foundation University Professor Emerita in the Humanities and Professor Emerita of English at Princeton University. Notable works include poetry collections such as Cinder: New and Selected Poems (2017) and Columbarium (2003, National Book Critics Circle Award), and criticism like Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (2002, Christian Gauss and Truman Capote Awards); she has received a MacArthur Fellowship and served as Chancellor of the.