Mario Susko is the author of 31 poetry collections and the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1997 and 2006 Nassau Review Poetry Award, the 1988 Premio Internazionale di Poesia e Letterature “Nuove Lettere” (Italy), the 2000 Tin Ujevic Award for the best book of poems published in Croatia in 1999, among others.
In 2012 he was named by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association Long Island Poet of the Year, elected member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and given the CCHA Regional Distinguished Humanities Educator Award.
He has read his poetry both internationally and domestically. His poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Croatia, India, Italy, Hungary, Sweden and Austria, among others.
Mario Susko is also known as an editor and translator of major American writers such as Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, James Baldwin, Theodore Roethke, and e.e. cummings.
He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from SUNY Stony Brook in the early 70’s. A witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, he returned to the US in 1993. Currently he teaches in the English Department at Nassau Community College, Garden City, NY.
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