Suzanne Underwood Rhodes

Suzanne Underwood Rhodes is the author of two previous volumes of poetry, What a Light Thing, This Stone and Weather of the House, and has published two collections of creative prose, A Welcome Shore and Sketches of Home. Her work is often praised for the power of its lyricism and spiritual depth. A native of New York, she lives and writes in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Besides writing poetry, she is an editor, speaker and adjunct college in-structor, and works fulltime as the director of public affairs for the charity Mercy Medical Airlift. She and her husband, Wayne Rhodes, a photographer, enjoy hiking and riding bikes along the shore. Together they have five children and four grandchildren.

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