Susan Zenker recently retired after working in the Family Literacy Program for the Socorro Independent School District in El Paso. She has lived in New England, Mexico City, and Miami. Her poems have appeared in Mezcla, The Rio Grande Review, Newspaper Tree, Best Poem: A Poetry Journal, The South Boston Literary Gazette, Latino Stuff Review, The South Carolina Review, Strong Verse, Dreamers Writing, and others. Two of her plays were presented in public readings at the Fox Fine Arts Theater and at the Chamizal Theater in El Paso. She has participated in poetry readings in Miami as well as during the Springs Arts Festival at El Paso Community College and at the El Paso Public Library. She has been a member of El Paso’s writing workshop Tumblewords Project and SCBWI.