Suzanne S. Rancourt

Suzanne S. Rancourt is Abenaki/Huron decent and is a multi-modal Expressive Arts Therapist with graduate degrees and certifications in psychology, creative writing, drug and alcohol recovery. Her first book of poetry, Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award and is now in its 2nd printing , Northwestern University Press. Her second, murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released May 2019. Rancourt's 3rd book, Old Stones, New Roads, Main Street Rag Publishers, released 2021. Her 4th manuscript, Songs of Archilochus, Unsolicited Press, is scheduled to release Autumn 2023.

Rancourt is a current participating writer in Nature Culture's Writing the Land Project and has work forthcoming in the non-profit organizations Migrations anthology and forthcoming work in the Writing the Land's 2021 land trust partners. More work and presence is scheduled through 2023.

Her poetry, non-fiction, and fiction have appeared in Peauxdunque Review, MacQueen's Quinterly, Wend Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, Bricklight, Written Tales, Turtle Island Quarterly, New Feathers Anthology, The Halcyone and more.

Rancourt is a USMC and Army Veteran who continues to serve as a Mentor for the Saratoga County Veterans’ Peer to Peer program. Rancourt is also an Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate and trainer.