Susan Firer is the recipient of this year’s Lorine Niedecker Award. Her most recent book is Milwaukee Does Strange Things to People: New & Selected Poems 1970-2007. Her book The Lives of the Saints and Everything won the Cleveland State Poetry Center Prize and the Posner Award, and The Laugh We Make When We Fall won the Backwaters Prize. She curates the poetry column ExpressMilwaukee.com. Her poem “Call Me Pier” is included in the Poetry Everywhere series, available for viewing on YouTube or through the Poetry Foundation. She was Poet Laureate of the City of Milwaukee from 2008-2010.