SUSAN MAXWELL earned her BA in Peace and Conflict studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has been featured in such publications as Verse, American Letters & Commentary, Fence, VOLT, and River City Magazine, and she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2004 for the poem "Plural for Tree at the Forested Edge." Maxwell currently resides in Oakland, California.
