Susan O’Dell Underwood directs the creative writing program at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Besides two chapbooks (From and Love and Other Hungers) her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including Oxford American, North Carolina Literary Review, Southern Humanities Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The Southern Poetry Anthology. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a PhD in English from Florida State University. The first chapter of her novel Genesis Road won the Tennessee Arts Commission Grant for Literature. She and her husband, artist David Underwood, run Sapling Grove Press, devoted to underserved writers, artists, and photographers in Appalachia. For more information visit: susanodellunderwood.com and saplinggrovepress.com.
