Susan Michele Coronel lives in Ridgewood, Queens. Her debut collection, In the Needle, A Woman, won the 2024 Donna Wolf Palacio Poetry Prize and was published by Finishing Line Press in 2025. Three poems in the book were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in journals including Gone Lawn, MOM Egg Review, Nixes Mate, Pedestal, Spillway 29, and SWWIM. In 2023, she won the Massachusetts Poetry Festival’s First Poem Award.
