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

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SCRIM

By Susan Isla Tepper

A scrim has dropped
dividing you
from this place
known half your life

Deciduous trees
sprout hallucinations
fall mums
blooming seem weak—
You know this place / You don’t

Some middle-ground
resembling uncertainty
brushes every surface
Too many to count—

Does it matter
is this death.

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Cheryl E. Grant is an American actress, filmmaker, director, writer and acting coach and the co- owner of the award-winning production company Chansons Films chansonsfilms.com.  She has worked for decades in theater, film, television, and corporate media. She is best known for directing the award‑winning documentary John Strasberg: Accidentally On Purpose and currently stars in John Strasberg’s feature film Adams’ Apples, both available on Broadway On Demand. She is also the Creator, Writer, and Director of the multi-award-winning Web Series: Woman Of An Uncertain Age. She has a great love of florals and nature which she has photographed extensively throughout her life; she is so honored to be featured with this exquisite poem by the divine Susan Isla Tepper.