About Suzanne Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt, born in 1959, is a contemporary American poet and a veteran of both the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army, with ancestral ties to the Abenaki and Huron tribes. Raised in west central Maine, she authored a poetry collection titled Billboard in the Clouds, which earned the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas First Book Award in 2001. Additionally, her poetry has been featured in The Journal of Military Experience, Volume II, as well as in the literary journals Callaloo and The Cimarron Review, among various anthologies. Rancourt holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vermont College and a Master of Science in Educational Psychology from the University at Albany, SUNY. Currently residing in Hadley, New York, she has organized powwows and has served as a counselor for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in New York. Furthermore, she has worked as a parent education specialist for a Head Start program in northern New York. Rancourt's diverse talents also include being a singer/songwriter, personal fitness trainer, percussionist, herbal educator, and dance instructor.Browse all poems and texts published on Suzanne Rancourt
