Susannah R. Drissi

Susannah Rodríguez Drissi is an award-winning Cuban-born poet, writer, translator, playwright, director, producer, and scholar. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA where she teaches in the Writing Programs. Her poems, short stories, creative non-fiction, and reviews have appeared in anthologies such as In Season—Stories of Discovery, Loss, Home, and Places in Between, winner of the 2018 Florida Book Award; and journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Saw Palm, Literal Magazine, Diario de Cuba (Madrid), SX Salon, Raising Mothers, Acentos Review and Cuba Counterpoints, among many others. Following readings at the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Los Angeles, her award-winning play, Houses Without Walls, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2018. More recently, her short plays The Fruit Flies and Rey y Atenea were selected to the 2019 Short+Sweet Theatre Festival and premiered at the Lee Strasberg Film & Theatre Institute, in Los Angeles. Rey y Atenea received an Audience Choice Award and was Finalist for the 2019 NBC Universal Talent Infusion Programs Award. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters and is the author of the poetry collection The Latin Poet's Guide to the Cosmos (Floricanto Press, 2019) and Until We're Fish (Propertius Press, 2020), a novel about Cuba.

Learn more about Susannah and keep up with her latest news, book giveaways, and more on her website at www.susannahrodriguezdrissi.com.