Constance Studer is a retired registered nurse and writer of poetry, creative nonfiction and short fiction. She earned a diploma from the Toledo Hospital School of Nursing, a BA in English Literature from Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois and a MA in English Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She worked many years in Intensive Care-Coronary Care, and as a hospital supervisor before she retired due to physical disability. She never retired from writing. She was born and raised in rural Ohio, and has made Colorado her adopted home since 1973.

Studer lived three years in the Netherlands, learned the Dutch language, and worked as a registered nurse in the Luthersche Deakonessen Inrichting in Amsterdam. She has published English translations of Dutch poetry in Poetry East, Visions-International, Blue Buildings, and Practices of the Wind. She has published three books: Prayer to a Purple God, Mellen Poetry Press, 1996, reissued in hard back in 2004; Body Language: First Of All Do No Harm, (creative nonfiction) Purdue University Press, 2009; and Queen of the Sugarhouse, June, 2021.

Studer's poetry has appeared in High Plains Literary Review, Bloomsbury Review, Carquinez Poetry Review, Eclipse, the Minnesota Review, We Speak For Peace, (anthology) Knowledge, Ideas and Trends (KIT), Sing Heavenly Muse!, Zone 3, Birmingham Poetry Review, Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts and Disability, Prairie Smoke: The Pueblo Poetry Project 1979-1989, (anthology), University of Southern Colorado Press, The Eleventh Muse, Calapooya Collage, The Midnight Lamp, Cream City Review, Newsletter Inago, Earth's Daughters, Mediphors: A Literary Journal for Health Professionals, Embers, The Devil's Millhopper, The Connecticut Writer, The Sun, The Poetry of Nursing, (anthology) Kent State University Press, and Wingbone: Poetry From Colorado, (anthology), Sudden Jungle Press, among others. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, by the Eleventh Muse and Embers.

Studer's essays have appeared in South Dakota Review, SLAB: Sound and Literary Art Book, The Poetry of Nursing (anthology) Kent State University Press, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, The Mochila Review, Sanskrit Literary-Arts Magazine, American Journal of Nursing, and Kaleidoscope: International Magazine of Literature, Fine Arts and Disability.

Studer's short stories have appeared in Phoenix, Crucible, Georgia State University Review, Thin Air Magazine, Intensive Care: More Poetry and Prose by Nurses, (anthology) University of Iowa Press, Westview: A Journal of Western Oklahoma, and Ascent.

Constance Studer has enjoyed writer's residencies at Ucross, Hedgebrook and the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, Denver. She has received grants from the Neodata Foundation, the Arts and Humanities Assembly of Boulder and the Katherine Sharp Rachlis Memorial Grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, New York.

“A brilliant, if harrowing, set of tales featuring sharp prose. Studer, a retired nurse, offers a dazzling and nuanced portrait of the medical world.”
– Kirkus Reviews