Susan Hankla lives in Richmond, VA. Recipient of the Virginia Prize for Fiction and fellowships to VCCA and the Frost Place, she holds a BA from Hollins College and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. Clinch River, her debut poetry collection set in Appalachia, was published by Groundhog Poetry Press. Other works have been published in Gargoyle, Beloit Fiction Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Blue Mesa, Artemis, Hollins Critic, Open Places, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest and the New Virginia Review as well as a chapbook published by Burning Deck Press.