A lifelong Utahn, Susan Elizabeth Howe was born in Provo and raised in Pleasant Grove. She has been a member of the BYU English Department faculty for over twenty years. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Poetry, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, and The Southern Review. She has been a contributing editor to Tar River Poetry, the managing editor or The Denver Quarterly, and the poetry editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Her poetry collection Stone Spirits won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize and the Association for Mormon Letters Award in poetry. Susan is married to Cless T. Young and lives in Ephraim, Utah.