Susan Donnelly is the author of the collections Eve Names the Animals (Northeastern University Press, 1985), Transit (Iris Press, 2001), and Capture the Flag (Iris, 2009), as well as five chapbooks, the most recent of which is The Path of Thunder (Cervena Barva Press, 2017), a compilation of her poems on the subject of race in America. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, AGNI, Poetry, and The Atlantic, as well as in many textbooks and anthologies. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, where she teaches poetry. (updated 10/2018)