Susan Davis’s poetry reflects a birth in Louisiana, a childhood in upstate New York and stints in the giant states of Texas and Alaska. She now resides in California with her husband and directs under- graduate creative writing at University of California, Irvine. Her poem “The Season Begins in a Waiting Room” was chosen for the 2010 Rebecca Lard Poetry Award, and the poem “Farm Days” was installed on wind screens at the Lake June transit station in Dallas in November of 2010. She is the mother of two daughters.