Susan Elbe is the author of The Map of What Happened, winner of the 2012 Backwaters Press Prize and the Jacar Press 2014 and the Julie Suk Prize in 2013. Elbe is also the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Poetry), and two chapbooks, Where Good Swimmers Drown, winner of the 2011 Concrete Wolf Press Chapbook Prize, and Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Diode, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and online at Verse Daily. 

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