Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who grew up in New York City and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. Her poetry has been published in or is forthcoming in Invisible City, Ekstasis, MacQueen's Quinterly, Green Silk Journal, The Write Launch, The Gentian, Across the Margin, October Hill, Litbreak Magazine, Beltway Poetry, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Foreshadow, Cosmic Daffodil and others. Within the last few months one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil, and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Award by Umbrella Factory Magazine.