susanna schantz
occasionally
writes a poem, blocking blues in
narrow-banded green
Publications
"Quarter Rest with Fermata," Van Magazine
"There is Something Savage," La Piccioletta Barca
"Hemicrania (Dis)Continua," The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
"The Bible You Grew up With," "The Most Powerful Position is on Your Knees," "The Original Toll Free Number is God's," and ''Dusty Bibles, Dirty Lives," (Four Church Signs Outside Clemson, South Carolina), The Humanist
"Embouchure," Jerry Jazz Musician
"Warm Up," Wildfire Words Ukraine Anthology
"Vacation Bible School Under the Sea," Deceleration
"Breath Taking," runner-up in the After the End Poetry Competition, 2025
"Never Thine, Ever Mine," Syncopation Literary Journal (forthcoming)
"Live Like Royalty: the Blessings of Justification," "America's Freedom Came at a Great Cost," and "Glorify God Through Your Finances," Caveat Lector (forthcoming)
About
Susanna Schantz is a former teacher for New York City schools for pregnant, parenting and unhoused teens, and for young men in the justice system, U.S. Department of Education TRIO programs, and the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, with degrees from Yale and Columbia Universities. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Caveat Lector, Deceleration, Jerry Jazz Musician, La Piccioletta Barca, Syncopation Literary Journal, The Calendula Review: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, The Humanist, and VAN Magazine (Berlin), and her poem "Breath Taking" was a runner-up in the After the End Poetry Competition 2025. A trained naturalist, she lives in South Carolina and tries to keep her chronic neurological pain from ruining the day.
