Susan Atefat Peckham

Susan Atefat-Peckham (August 12, 1970, New York City – February 7, 2004) was an Iranian-American poet.[1]

Life

She graduated from the Baylor University, and University of Nebraska with her PhD in 1999, where she was an Editorial Assistant for Prairie Schooner.[2] She taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Hope College,[3] where she was editor of Milkwood Review, and Georgia College & State University.[4]

She and her son Cyrus were killed in an auto accident; her husband, Joel Peckham, mother, and youngest son Darius were hurt but survived.[5]

Poetry
  • "Dates"; "AMEH JOON", Nebraska Center for Writers
  • That Kind of Sleep. Coffee House Press. 2001. ISBN 978-1-56689-116-5.

References
  1. http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/atefatPeckham.php
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-13. Retrieved 2009-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.hope.edu/pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/1207
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-27. Retrieved 2009-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. OWEN MORITZ (February 10, 2004). "POET & SON DIE IN JORDAN CRASH". New York Daily News.
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