Susan Stevens received a bachelor's in comparative literature from the University of Redlands (California) 
and a master's in creative writing from Northern Arizona University, where she studied with the late 
Jim Simmerman. She taught composition, literature, and creative writing at Eastern Arizona College, where 
she also directed the Visiting Writers Series, and composition and literature at Yavapai College, Austin 
Peay State University, Georgia Military College, and Augusta State University.  Earlier, she left a 
civil service position with the Department of Defense to teach high school English on the Navajo reservation. 
Her poetry has appeared in Seems, Northern Arizona Review, the George Wright Society's Forum Journal, The 
Reach of Song, the Agnes Scott College Writers Festival Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently an 
editor for the Engineer Professional Bulletin and Maneuver Support Magazine at Fort Leonard 
Wood, Missouri.