Susan Settlemyre Williams is the author of Ashes in Midair (2008), winner of the 2007 Many Mountains Moving Press Poetry Book Contest, and a chapbook, Possession (Finishing Line Press, 2007). Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including Mississippi Review, diode, 42opus, Sycamore Review, and Shenandoah, and in the anthologies Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press, 2008) and Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press). She is the book review editor and literary editor for Blackbird, as well as a member of the National Book Critics Circle.  

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