Susan KolodnySusan Kolodny's poems appear in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bellingham Review, and in many other journals and several anthologies. They have been featured on American Life in Poetry and Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Waren Wilson College. Her work has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and an Intro Award. Preserve, as noted, is her second collection. She is also a psychoanalyst. She received a Doctorate in Mental Health from UC San Francisco, and is a graduate of and faculty member at The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP). She practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Oakland where she has worked with many artists and writers. She has taught psychotherapists and candidates in psychoanalytic training in various settings in the Bay Area. As the author of The Captive Muse: On Creativity and Its Inhibition (PsychoSocial Press, 2000), she has lectured and conducted workshops on creativity and what gets in its way. Kolodny founded and chairs the Poetry and Psychoanalysis series at SFCP where guest poets are interviewed about their creative process, obstacles they may encounter, and about the unconscious, language, and silence in both poetry and psychoanalytic work. Read More Read Less