Susan Terris lives in San Francisco where she is a writer and a teacher of writing. Her recent works include Author! Author! and Nell's Quilt (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), Killing in the Comfort Zone (Pudding House Press), and many journal publications including The Antioch Review, The Midwest Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, Southern California Anthology, Nimrod, and The Southern Poetry Review. On-line she has had work in The Blue Penny Quarterly, In Vivo, Switched-on Gutenberg, Kudzu, Gaia, Realpoetik, Ariga:Visions, and Zero City.