Susanne Dyckman is the author of the poetry collections, A DARK ORDINARY (Furniture Press Books, 2016), and equilibrium's form (Shearsman Books, 2007), as well as five chapbooks. She was a previous winner of the Five Fingers Review Poetry Award and finalist for both the Electronic Poetry Review Discovery Award and the Ashahta Press Sawtooth Poetry Prize. She has taught in the creative writing programs at the University of San Francisco and SF State University, and for a number of years hosted the now occasional Evelyn Avenue Summer Reading Series. She lives in Albany, California.