Susan Atefat-Peckham Explained

Susan Atefat-Peckham
Birth Date:	12 August 1970
Birth Place:	New York City
Death Place:	Jordan
Occupation:	Poet

Susan Atefat-Peckham (August 12, 1970, in New York City – February 7, 2004) was an Iranian-American poet.^[1]

Life

She graduated from the Baylor University, and University of Nebraska with her PhD in 1999, where she was an Editorial Assistant for Prairie Schooner.^[2] She taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hope College,^[3] where she was editor of Milkwood Review, and Georgia College & State University.^[4]

She and her son Cyrus were killed in an auto accident; her husband, Joel Peckham, mother, and youngest son Darius were hurt but survived.^[5]

Poetry

• "Dates"; "AMEH JOON", Nebraska Center for Writers
• Book: That Kind of Sleep. Coffee House Press. 2001. 978-1-56689-116-5 .
• Book: Deep Are These Distances Between Us. CavanKerry Press. 2023. 978-1-93388-096-9 .

External links

• "An Interview With Poet Susan Atefat-Peckham", Poets & Writers

Notes and References

1. Web site: Voices from the Gaps.
2. Web site: NCW--Susan Atefat Peckham . 2009-08-13 . dead . https://archive.today/20120713120607/http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/speckham.htm . 2012-07-13 .
3. Web site: Faculty Poet Wins Award / 2000-2001 / Archive / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College . www.hope.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060911011052/http://www.hope.edu/pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/1207 . 2006-09-11.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-08-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100327072907/http://al.gcsu.edu/atefat-peckham.htm . 2010-03-27 .
5. News: POET & SON DIE IN JORDAN CRASH. OWEN MORITZ. February 10, 2004. New York Daily News.