Suzanne Underwood Rhodes lives, writes, and teaches in the mountains of Fayetteville, Arkansas, and is the author of a poetry collection, What a Light Thing, This Stone, and two chapbooks. Her poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize and have appeared, as well as her essays, in numerous journals and anthologies. Rhodes teaches poetry workshops at the Muse Writers Center in Virginia, and for other groups of students ages five through eighty.