Susan Azar Porterfield is the author of KIBBE (Mayapple Press) and a chapbook, Beirut Redux (Finishingline). Her work has appeared in, among other places, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Ireland Review. She is the editor of Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk (Ohio UP) and has written on Stryk for Poets & Writers as well as AWP's The Writer's Chronicle. She has received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and is the Associate Poetry Editor of Fifthwednesday Journal. She is a Distinguished Professor Emerita of English at Rockford University.