Susannah Sheffer’s poetry collections are This Kind of Knowing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2013) and Break and Enter (Kelsay Books, 2021), and her nonfiction books include Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys (Vanderbilt University Press, 2013). Her poems have appeared in Tar River Poetry, Poet Lore, The Threepenny Review, and other journals. She is a clinical mental health counselor and directs the Texas After Violence Project’s Access to Treatment Initiative. She lives in Western Massachusetts.