writer

I worked with Michael Anania at Northwestern in 1967, then at the University of Illinois until 1971. I was published widely until 1976. Silenced by abuse and trauma, I became sober in1981 and returned to spoken word. In 2013 I joined with two poets in recovery to publish The Poetry of Well-being. In 2025 I completed an MFA in poetry at Pacific University, working with Kwame Dawes and Mahtem Shiferraw. My thesis is a collection of poems, Jubilee Along the Fault.

I also write memoir, essays and sermons.

Performance Works:

• Penance for Los Angeles, or The Hollywood Dreamcatcher
• Break Out! (with Maggie Bloomfield)

Selected Publications:

• “We the People,” poem in What Unites Us  (Island Sound Press, Stonybrook NY. 2025)
•  In Pilgrim Drag. Chapbook of poems published by Finishing Line Press. 2020. www.finishinglinepress.org
• Parting Gifts. Chapbook of poems published by Local Gems Press NY 2020  (Honorable Mention). To order, contact info@susandingle.org
•  The Poetry of Well-being (Maggie Bloomfield, Susan Dingle & Nina Yavel) An anthology published privately by Creativity 4 Community, 2013.