Susan Campbell
Poet │ Book Artist
Susan Campbell’s life as a poet, teacher, book artist, and outdoor adventurer is tethered to the far north. She lives in the heart of Alaska’s boreal forest and writes poetry grounded in the place she calls home.
Her debut book of poetry, This Far North, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press/Boreal Books in August 2026.
THIS FAR NORTH
Poems
Red Hen Press/Boreal Books
Coming August 18, 2026
This Far North is a poetry collection that holds reverence for the natural world and the ways we find home when we pay attention.
When the sound of water shapes sleep./ When cranes disappear from the river./ When maps unfold on hardwood floors./ When north becomes the only direction.
Susan Campbell invites readers to look, then look deeper at the world’s myriad wonders, to pause and consider what we can learn when we stand still long enough to listen to the trill of kinglets, the susurration of water, snow sloughing in December rain. Seeking gratitude while navigating a world suffused with grief and loss, these poems are compass points, cairns to help us find our way.
KIND WORDS for This Far North
How do we live in a waning world? How do we track what remains in the litany of all that is lost? These are the essential questions of This Far North. Bridging landscape and time, these poems invite readers to sit with the birch, the sun, the river, the ice. They ask us to set our small griefs beside us and allow what we see in nature to help steady us. “There are many ways to heal,” Campbell writes. Readers will find that reading these poems is one of the ways.