Susan Glickman is the author of seven books of poetry, including What We Carry (2019); four novels for adults, including The Discovery of Flight (2018); three novels for children; and one award-winning work of literary criticism, The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape (1998). Once an English professor and subsequently a creative writing instructor, she now works as a freelance editor and is learning to paint.