Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press), which won Honorable Mention for the 2007 Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Poetry Book Award, and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including Blackbird, diode, MARGIE, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill, A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry (Calyx Books), and On Retirement: 75 Poems (University of Iowa Press). Among her awards are the inaugural Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize (Calyx), the Council for Wisconsin Writers Lorine Niedecker Award, Third Place in the Poetry Center of Chicago’s 14th Annual Juried Reading, and fellowships to Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. You can learn more about her at www.susanelbe.com.