Susan Delaney Spear is a poet and retired teacher. She has published two collections of poetry, Beyond All Bearing and On Earth, both through Resource Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock. She is the co-author of (with David J. Rothman) Learning the Secrets of English Verse a creative writing textbook (Springer). She lived in Denver, Colorado, for 45 years. She and her husband Bruce moved to Tampa in 2022, where she reads, writes, practices yoga, and accompanies her church choir. She recently walked the Camino Ingles in Spain. Her second collection of poetry, On Earth is the winner of a 2024 American Legacy Book Award for Poetry in the religious category. You can find her at www.susandelaneyspear.com