Susan HanklaSusan Hankla is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia. She teaches writing classes at the Visual Art Center, serving the adult education community and is also an exhibiting visual artist. Clinch River is her first full-length collection of poems. Othr works have been published in Gargoyle, Beloit Fiction Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Blue Mesa, Artemis, Hollins Critic, Open Places, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest and the New Virginia Review as well as a chapbook published by Burning Deck Press. She is a recipient of a Virginia Commission on the Arts Grant for Fiction and of a fellowship to attend the Frost Place, and she has enjoyed being a fellow many times at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a graduate of Hollins University and has an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. Read More Read Less