Author Description

As sailboat captain, rower, flyfisher, gardener, and Quaker naturalist, SUSAN SCHMIDT writes poems about moving from dark into light as she plays in boats and walks long trails. Her Gettysburg poem won the Guy Owen Poetry Prize. Her Carolina Parakeet poem appears in Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina. She remembers catching big trout, surviving gales at sea, birds, peach pie, old loves, Celtic ancestry, Civil War battles, and learning to navigate. She has worked as sailboat captain, science-policy analyst, and professor of literature and environmental decision-making. She now edits books, with the same mindfulness as pruning apple trees, and walks beaches. A Silkie like her Boykin Spaniel, she is happiest wet.