Suzanne Roberts

Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay),​ Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (North American Travel Journalists Association Bronze Award for a Travel Book), and Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award), four collections of poems, and a creative writing craft book 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer (forthcoming October 1, 2026 from the University of Nebraska Press). 

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, Ploughshares, CNN, National Geographic Traveler, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Normal School, River Teeth, The Fourth Genre, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno, teaches in the low residency MFA in creative writing at UNR-Tahoe, and lives in South Lake Tahoe, California.