We’re excited to invite you to join Jasper and 16 of SC’s finest working writers under the Jasper Literary Arts Tent at this year’s Rosewood Art & Music Festival on Saturday, October 7th from noon - 5 pm. Over the next few weeks we will be spotlighting each of these literary artists here at Jasper Online. Come back to this site often to learn more about these local literary treasures!
SUSAN CRAIG
Susan Craig spent more than thirty-five years as a graphic artist and owner of a design/marketing studio in Columbia. Throughout her career, the interplay of image, syntax and lyricism influenced both her poetry and prose writing.
Author of the chapbook “Hush” (2022, Seven Kitchens Press), her work has been published locally, regionally and nationally in journals including Fall Lines, Jasper, Twelve Mile Review, Poetry Society of SC, Kakalak, Poetry South, Quiet Diamonds and Mom Egg Review. Her poems were featured multiple times as part of Columbia's Poet Laureate projects, including Poetry on the Comet and others. Her work has also been published online in What Rough Beast.
While her primary focus has been poetry, she is also a past winner of the SC Fiction Project for her short story "Beyond the New Moon.” Another short story, “Sam Macklin Says Grace” won first place in Kentucky's Green River Writers contest.
She finds greatest inspiration in the natural world, and life’s daily curiosities.
EVELYN BERRY
Evelyn Berry is a trans, Southern writer, editor, and educator. She's the author of the forthcoming debut poetry collection Grief Slut (Sundress Publications, 2024) and the poetry chapbook Buggery, winner of the BOOM Chapbook Prize (Bateau Press, 2020). She's a recipient of a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 2022 Dr. Linda Veldheer Memorial Prize, 2019 Broad River Prize for Prose, and 2018 Emrys Poetry Prize, among other honors. Her recent work has appeared in South Carolina Review, Drunk Monkeys, Day Job Journal, Gasher, Horns, and elsewhere.