Susan Kelly-DeWitt
Susan Kelly is the author of The Fortunate Islands (Marick Press) and several chapbook collections including Cassiopeia Above the Banyan Tree, “Poems About Hawaii,” and The Limbo Suite, “Poems and Paintings,” also known as Mudlark No. 33 (2007) and Mudlark No. 38 (2009).
Her work also appears in a number of anthologies, most recently When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (Autumn House Press) and In Whatever Houses We May Visit: An Anthology of Poems That Have Inspired Physicians (American College of Physicians). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, The North American Review, Yankee, and Nimrod; her interviews, articles and reviews have appeared in The Sacramento Bee, Library Journal, Perihelion, Poetry Flash and Small Press Review, among others. She is currently a contributing editor for Poetry Flash and an instructor for the UC Davis Extension program. Also a visual artist, her paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in Northern California galleries for over twenty years.
A second full-length collection of poems, Ghostfire, is currently in search of a publisher. You can visit her website at www.susankelly-dewitt.com.