Susanne Dyckman is the author of three poetry collections, equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books), A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books), and, in collaboration with the poet Elizabeth Robinson, Rendered Paradise (Apogee Press), as well as five chapbooks. Her work has appeared in a number of journals, most recently Posit and the anthology Winter in America (Again. She has taught in the creative writing programs at the University of San Francisco and SF State University, and for a number of years hosted the now occasional Evelyn Avenue Summer Reading Series. She lives in Albany, California.