Susan Stevens has taught composition, literature, and creative writing on the Navajo reservation at Many Farms and at campuses in Tennessee, Georgia, and Arizona, including Yavapai College and Eastern Arizona College, where she partnered with the Arizona Commission on the Arts to direct the Visiting Writing Series. She received a bachelor's in comparative literature from the University of Redlands and a master's in creative writing under the tutelage of iconoclastic poet Jim Simmerman, late Regents' Professor at Northern Arizona University. Finishing Line Press published her poetry collection Things We Might Miss (2017) and chapbooks With Ridiculous Caution (2013) and O, But in the Library (2017). A retired educator and federal employee, she is presently a freelance writer-editor in New Mexico and at work on the obligatory novel.
