Susanna J. Mishler was awarded first place in the Poetry Open of the University of Alaska/Anchorage Daily News Statewide Writing Contest in 2001, and the winning poem was published on LitSite Alaska. Since then, her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Hotel Amerika, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review Online, Michigan Quarterly Review, RATTLE, and elsewhere. In 2004 she received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in Tucson, where she also served as an editor for Sonora Review. She teaches workshops at the 49 Alaska Writing Center. Her collection of poems, titled Termination Dust, is available from Boreal Books/Red Hen Press.