Susan Tepper is the author of Deer & Other Stories (Wilderness House Press, 2009) and the poetry chapbook Blue Edge (Cervena Barva Press). She has received five nominations for the Pushcart Prize, and she curates the reading series FIZZ at KGB Bar. Stories and poems by Tepper have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Gargoyle, American Letters & Commentary, Crannog, Salt Hill, Poetry Salzburg, and many other journals. Two more books are forthcoming.