Susie Paul is a long-time resident of Montgomery, AL, having taught American literature and writing at Auburn University Montgomery for over 20 years. Now retired, she is a member of the boards of the Alabama Writers' Forum, for which she judges the state-wide high school writing competition-the poetry division, and Nora's Playhouse South. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kalliope, Negative Capability, Earth's Daughters, The Village Rambler, Alimentum, and other journals and magazines. The Whitened Air: Mary Paul in Winter was ten years in the making. Its author is 70.