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

Interesting

By Susan Isla Tepper

Am I hardened
it happens

some can’t
break the pain,
make a shell,
protect their egg.

One boy might die.
Interesting.
You call me monster
am I?

You want to rush in
pulling them apart
yet you keep back.

What if the ice
doesn’t hold, you say,
what if there is a weapon.

Watching this
play out from a distance
I, too,
am less inclined.

Photography by Phoebe Wilcox

Phoebe Wilcox’s first novel, Angels Carry the Sun, (Lilly Press, 2010) was nominated for the PEN/Faulker award. Her poetry chapbook, Recidivist, (Lilly Press, 2010) includes the Rhysling-nominated poem, “A More Significant Sun.” Three Pushcart prize nominations and one Gertrude Stein “Rose” Poetry Prize later (Wilderness House Literary Review, 2012), she is hard at work on her second novel, Don’t Get Burned. She lives in a swing state on the East Coast.