Su Smallen is the author of Weight of Light (Laurel Poetry Collective, 2004), which was nominated for the Pushcart Press Editor’s Book Award. Her many honors include the Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, judged by Elizabeth Alexander, and grants from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council. Her poems and essays have appeared in Bellingham Review, Bloom, Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies, The Normal School, Saint Paul Almanac, Smartish Pace, three candles, Water~Stone Review, and several anthologies.