Susan Isla Tepper has a Novella just out from Wilderness House Press titled GIRL UPSIDE DOWN. Currently it is only available from the author direct.  A twenty-year writer, she has penned 14 published books of fiction and poetry and 7 Stage Plays.

Honors include 25 Pushcart Prize Nominations, a win in the Francis Ford Coppola Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Second Place Winner in Story/South Million Writers Award and more.

Her stage play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022, at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review.
http://www.susantepper.com

TRANSFER

By Susan Isla Tepper

This is where they silenced me
fools that they are—

didn’t realize I will never end
but simply step over that road
and make my transfer.

There are other words
to explain this process.
I prefer transfer.
Simple and benign.

Lay low a while
off the grid
return to collect.
Who laughs last?

Photography by Alexis Rhone Fancher

Poet/photographer, Alexis Rhone Fancher has authored 11 books of poetry and flash, most recently, EROTIC, and BRAZEN (both published by NYQ.), and TRIGGERED (MacQueens). Coming up: A Picture is Worth a Poet’s Words, a photo-portrait book of over 100 Southern California poets will be publishe in early 2026 by Moon Tide Press, in addition to publishing Alexis’ full-length, erotic book of poems and flash fiction, CockSure. SinkHole, a chapbook of twenty-five“sister” pantoums, exploring her beloved sister’s final illness and death, will be published by MacQueen’s in January, 2026. A multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Alexis recently won Best MicroFiction 2025. She calls the Mojave Desert home..www.alexisrhonefancher.com