About

Susan Ludvigson is a published poet and is professor emeritus at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina. 

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Susan is the author of nine collections of poetry; her books include Northern Lights (1981), The Swimmer (1982), The Beautiful Noon of No Shadow (1986), To Find the Gold (1990), Everything Winged Must Be Dreaming (1993), Trinity (1996), Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (2000), Escaping the House of Certainty (2006), and Wave If You Can See Me (2020).

Ludvigson has received a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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Susan Ludvigson has shown her paintings at the Coffey and Thompson Gallery in Charlotte, NC; The Center for the Arts in Rock Hill, SC; Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC; Clinton College, Rock Hill, SC, and in private homes in Rock Hill and Charlotte. as well as in Paris, France. Her mentors, to whom she is extremely grateful, are Marge Moody and the late Paul Martyka, both colleagues at Winthrop University.

 

A native of Wisconsin, she has made her home in the South for more than thirty years and travels to France as much as possible.