Susan McCabe, Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Southern California

Susan McCabe is a professor of English and Creative Writing at USC, and has published Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (1994) and Cinematic Modernism (2005) and received as well the Agha Shahid Prize for a book of poems, Descartes' Nightmare (2008).

"McCabe is intimately alert to the ever-shifting world that H. D. and Bryher occupied. The biography is a helpful guide to the signs, symbols, nicknames and ménages à trois that helped the couple to understand and protect themselves as a family unit over four decades." - Jade French, TLS

"This double biography is the untold story of two lifelong lovers who, together and apart, played a role in shaping Modernism and the sexual politics that lay ahead" - Cassandra Langer, The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide

"This rich and stunning biography tells the untold story of two women, Bryher and H.D., who radically shaped modernism. McCabe uncovers the emergence of their aesthetics, spirituality, sexuality, politics and more—together and apart—against the backdrop of the oppressive milieu, their international travel, and beyond" - Cassandra Laity, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"Susan McCabe reclaims the lifelong love affair of H.D. and Bryher for our time. The couple emerges not just as collaborators at the forefront of literary modernism but as champions of gender fluidity." - Linda Leavell, author of Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore