Susan Snively’s fourth book of poetry, Skeptic Traveler, appeared in September from David Robert Books. Her previous books are From This Distance (Alice James, 1981), Voices in the House (Alabama, 1988), and The Undertow (University of Central Florida, 1998.) Her essays have been published in The Southern Review, The Florida Review (Editor's Prize, 1998), StorySouth, and The Tampa Review. She directs the Writing Center at Amherst College.