Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who was raised in New York City, and is now living in a forest in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Since she has returned to writing poetry this year, her poems have been accepted in a few dozen publications, including Across the Margin, Ekstasis, Vita Poetica, Feminine Collective, Persimmon Tree Literary Magazine, Military Experience and the Arts, the Avalon Literary Review, and three anthologies.