Boston College teaching record
Suzanne Matson
Professor
Biography
Suzanne Matson is the co-director of the Creative Writing Concentration and a writer across genres, with three books of poetry, four novels, and a book of nonfiction. She teaches poetry and fiction workshops at all levels, and Topics in Nonfiction courses including Writing about Place and Writing Spiritual Autobiography. She’s received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and was named the Finlandia Foundation Lecturer of the Year in 2023. Her author’s website is at www.suzannematson.com .
Official evaluation summary
4.33 / 5
Courses taught
- ENGL1724 Nature and Power: Reading the American Place
- ENGL2131 Studies in Poetry
- ENGL1186 Lit Core: Working Class: Stories of Labor, Class, and Privilege in America
- ENGL4917 Advanced Poetry Workshop
- ENGL4577 Writing Workshop: Poetry
- ENGL4579 Writing Workshop: Fiction
- PHIL4495 Self-Knowledge and Discernment
- ENGL5575 Topics in Creative Non-Fiction (CNF): Writing Place
- ENGL1010 First Year Writing Seminar
- ENGL5579 Topics in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Spiritual Autobiography
- ENGL4578 Poetry: Second Workshop