Poetry. Co-winner of the 2005 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition. In his contest award statement, Vern Rutsala, the contest's judge, said,"There is an appealing self-assurance in these poems--a poet is in charge though clearly aware of the slippery nature of experience. There are many fine poems here, among them what I would call a left-handed elegy 'The First Wife's Lament in Late Winter'-a fascinating idea in which the first wife speaks of her former husband who has died." Susan Davis received her education from Reed College and The Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. She is the co-editor with Gina Hyams of the anthology, Searching for MaryPoppins: Women Writers on the Intimate, Intricate, and Intense Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies in America, and a contributor to the anthology My Father Married Your Mother: Writers Talk about Stepparents, Stepchildren, and Everyone in Between. Her poetry and prose has been featured in several literary journals including The Paris Review, TheAntioch Review, Nimrod, The Boston Review and Western Humanities Review as well as on National Public Radio. She has had a long career in public radio, and is currently the senior producer of "The State of Things" on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC. This is her first collection of poetry.