Susan Baller-Shepard writes along a wilderness track, amidst cornfields and big skies. A Presbyterian minister, Susan’s writing has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post’s On Faith section, Spirituality & Health, Writer’s Digest, Intima, Typishly, Patheos, Day One, The Tattooed Buddha, and other publications. Her poetry collection, Doe was published in 2019, two of Susan’s poems were included in a new anthology, In the Footsteps of a Shadow: North American Literary Responses to Fernando Pessoa, and a poem in America, A Year From Now. A 2024 nonfiction essay of Susan’s was a finalist for the Perkoff Prize.