Professional Bio
B.A., Psychology and English, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
M.A., English (area of specialty: British Literature), University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Ph.D., English (areas of specialty: Early American Literature, Creative Writing)
Research & Scholarship
Dr. Swanson's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has been widely published, in numerous reviews and journals.
She has published a novel: Before the Reef (Plainview Press), a chapbook, Josephine the Singer, and two poetry collections A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium (NFSP Press), and Trembling in the Bones (Ghost Road Press). Trembling in the Bones will be reissued in early 2013 by 3: A Taos Press, and will be the book featured in the Regis College Freshman Reading Program in the Fall of 2013.
She has two books forthcoming:
Little Houses, short story collection, finalist for the Stephen F. Austin University Press Fiction Award, early 2013
Memory's Rooms, poetry collection, Conundrum
Awards & Recognition
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship
Colorado Book Awards Finalist in Poetry
Colorado Artist-in-Residence
A.E. Coppard Prize for Fiction
Finalist: Missouri Review Larry Levis Award
First Prize for Poetry, National Writers Union Competition
Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize for A Thousand Bonds, National Federation of State Poetry Societies