Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026
Susan C. Waters

Susan C. Waters

Susan C. Waters has an advanced degree from the writing program at George Mason University and is currently Professor Emeritus at New Mexico Junior College. Ms. Waters started out as a journalist covering hard news in upstate New York.

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About Susan C. Waters

Susan C. Waters has an advanced degree from George Mason University. Ms. Waters started out as a journalist covering hard news in upstate New York and for 13 years was a magazine editor and writer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. She has won 10 prizes in poetry and has been nominated twice for the Push Cart Prize in Poetry. Her chapbook Heat Lightning was published in 2017 by Orchard Street Press. Her publishing credits are extensive, ranging from the Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun, to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the U.S. House of Representatives.

Currently, she is Professor Emeritus at New Mexico Junior College.

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  • Boots, Chaps, and Cowboy Hats...Nothing Else Matters

    Susan C. Waters has an advanced degree from the writing program at George Mason University and is currently Professor Emeritus at New Mexico Junior College. Ms. Waters started out as a journalist covering hard news in upstate New York.

  • Kingdom of Ice

    An experience of the wilderness of the Wrangle-St. Elias National Park in Alaska, USA.