Susan Shea was raised in New York City, and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. In the past year, she made the full-time transition from school psychologist to poet. In that time, more than one hundred of her poems have been accepted for publication by places that include: Invisible City, Ekstasis, MacQueen's Quinterly, Amethyst Review, October Hill Magazine, Lit Break Magazine, New English Review, Foreshadow, Umbrella Factory, and others.