"Susan Wheeler" is an educator and award-winning poet whose poems have frequently appeared in anthologies. She is currently the Director of Creative Writing at Princeton University. She has also taught at University of Iowa, NYU, Rutgers, Columbia University and The New School.

Wheeler was born in Pittsburgh and grew up throughout Minnesota and New England. She received a BA from Bennington College in 1977 and pursued graduate studies in art history at the University of Chicago between 1979 and 1981.

Wheeler was the first example of an Elliptical Poet described by Stephen Burt in his creation of the term in 1998.{{Cite news

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There wasn't anything that would stand in her way of doing something.

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(Stella Mae) had everything down to the wire of where she wanted everything to go. She even had it down to the music she wanted to play at her funeral and down to the Scriptures she wanted read. Everything. She was an amazing lady.

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He's very much involved in the philosophy states should be able to determine states' business. And in the same vein, territories should be able to determine the tax benefits that bolster business and the economy.

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It is one thing to have a discussion in a room in Washington, D.C., about how a policy affects people. It is another to see the size of the islands and their borders.

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