Jacqueline Suskin is a poet and educator who has been teaching workshops, Writing Books, hosting retreats and creating spontaneous poetry around the world since 2009.

Suskin is the author of eight books:

The Collected (Publication Studio, 2010), Go Ahead & Like It (Ten Speed Press, 2014), The Edge of The Continent Volume One (Rare Bird, 2018), The Edge of The Continent Volume Two (Rare Bird, 2019), Help in the Dark Season (Write Bloody, 2019), The Edge of The Continent Volume Three (Rare Bird, 2020), Every Day is a Poem (Sounds True, 2020), and A Year in Practice (Sounds True, December 2023).

With her project Poem Store, she has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems for patrons who chose a topic in exchange for a unique verse. Her work has been featured in New York Times, T Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and various other publications. As the Artist in Residence at Folklife Farm from 2019-2021, Suskin founded a retreat program and continues to host artists from around the world. She lives in Detroit where she works with InsideOut Literary Arts bringing nature poetry into urban classrooms with her Poem Forest curriculum.