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About Aimee

Poet, playwright, performer and college instructor Aimee Suzara has graced stages and classrooms nationally with spoken word, plays and workshops. A Mills MFA alumni (2006), her poems have been published widely and her first poetry book, SOUVENIR, was a Willa Award Finalist (2015). Her plays have been staged at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Thick House, Bindlestiff Studios and Brava Theater; her play TINY FIRES was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwright's Festival. She has collaborated and performed as a performing poet with Dance Theater companies such as Deep Waters Dance Theater and Ramon Alayo Dance Company, and her poetry has been adapted into an opera, a choreographed dance piece, and theatrical scripts. Her work has earned the YBCAway Award, AROHO Spirited Woman Award and she was a 2016 Artist Investigator with CalShakes. Committed to helping writers develop their voices, she has been teaching English, Composition, Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies for 15 years at the college level as well as poetry and spoken word to youth and adults; she is currently a lecturer at San Francisco State University and working on a commissioned play about Sappho to premiere in Spring 2022 with Cutting Ball Theater.