Her poetry carries the conviction of her Quaker faith, peace activist past, feminist performance art and love of literature. She is retired from the classroom where she taught high school English and creative writing, and, in a former life, acting, stage directing and multicultural theatre history and performance. She began writing full-time as a participant in National Poetry Writing Month 2012, when she also established her blogs Susan’s Poetry and Susan, continued …. She is working on a novel, Alice in Wonder.