Suzanne Lummis

Suzanne Lummis is a poet, poetry educator/instigator, and co-founder and present director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival. Suzanne completed her M.A. in English/Creative Writing at Fresno State University where she studied with Philip Levine. Since 1991, she has taught poetry at the UCLA Extension, including a course she developed “Poetry and the Movies: The Poem Noir.” Suzanne's seminal work comingling poetry and film noir has helped to define the poem noir motif—an edgy style that achieves a fusion of urban grit and urbane wit—causing fellow poet Mike Sonksen (aka Mike the Poet) to dub her "a poetic Raymond Chandler." In fall of 2011 she was an instrumental creative force behind the citywide, multi-arts series "Night and the City: L.A. Noir in Poetry, Fiction and Film."

She is the granddaughter of Charles Fletcher Lummis.