Susie Timmons was born in Chicago, grew up in Skokie, IL, barely survived adolescence in a creepy NJ suburb and fled to NYC in 1975, at age 19. She lived elsewhere for awhile but New York is really her home. Immediately upon her arrival, (then) editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter Billy Mackay introduced her to the incredible universe of the Poetry Project where she had the great fortune to take workshops with Alice Notley, Bill Zavatsky, Jim Brodey, and Ted Berrigan. She co-founded the NYC Poetry Calendar with Bob Holman and Sara Miles, operated a brief reading series at Sobosseks, edited an ephemeral 2 issue poetry newspaper called Bingo. She was active in downtown music and poetry scenes through the 1980s. She appeared in Henry Hills’ motion picture Money, was in Christian Marclay’s opera Dead Stories w/ Shelley Hirsch, David Moss, Arto Lindsay, David Garland and others, played variously in the 1980s with Charles K. Noyes, Mark Miller, Carol Parkinson, Judy Dunaway, David Linton, John Zorn and other others. Her lyrics appear on The Unlistenable Years by The Toy Killers, the compilation LPs Speed Trials and Peripheral Vision and on the recently reissued album Spill by the band, No Safety. As bands go, she was a founding member of The Scene is Now. She was in The Sunset Chorus w/ Ikue Mori & Cinnie Cole, The G-Spots with Joel Chassler and Barbara Barg, and The Busters with Ann Rupel, Heather Drake, AC Chubb and Barb. She played opposite Johnny Stanton and Simon Pettet in Alice Notley’s play Australia and portrayed a suicidal poet replete with oven hat in Eileen Myles’s Patriarchy, a play. She wrote declamations for Corey Tippin and Delia Doherty’s Tabula Spectacula, a gorgeous costume extravaganza celebrating the elements, performed al fresco in the NYC parks. She performed in an immense iteration of Sally Silvers’ Bark as a sort of debutante in pedal pushers tip-toeing diagonally across the space. She collaborated briefly with artist Rebecca Howland. In 1986-87, she taught a couple of workshops at the Poetry Project, and did so again in 2009. She was awarded the inaugural Ted Berrigan Award, and Joel Lewis got the other one. Her books include Hog Wild from Bob Rosenthal and Rochelle Kraut’s Frontward Books, Locked From the Outside from Yellow Press, The New Old Paint, Faux Press. These three were bundled together in Superior Packets, Wave Books 2015. Her work appears in Pathetic Literature ed. Eileen Myles, Grove Press 2022.