Susan Briante is the author of Defacing the Monument (2020), essays on immigration, archives, aesthetics, and the state, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism in 2021. Her work can be found in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Poetry (2020), and The Brooklyn Rail. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona. She directs the Southwest Field Studies in Writing Program, bringing students to the US-Mexico border to collaborate with community groups. Her book 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works was published by Noemi Press in October 2025.