About the Author

Sue D. Burton’s collection BOX was selected by Diane Seuss for the Two Sylvias Press Poetry Prize and will be released in summer 2018. Also to be released this summer is her chapbook LITTLE STEEL, from Fomite Press. She has been awarded Fourth Genre’s 2017 Steinberg Essay Prize, is the recipient of a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mudlark, New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, and Verse Daily. Apprenticeship-trained as a physician assistant at the Vermont Women’s Health Center, she worked as a PA in Vermont for over twenty-five years. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars and has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.