Suzanne Sunshower is a writer/artist originally from Detroit, where she operated her private-sales art studio for twenty years while freelancing in journalism.An ardent adventurer, among her memorable challenges were hiking into and out of the Grand Canyon in one day, in winter (not advised by Park staff); back-country camping in Badlands National Park in all four seasons, including winter and during the electrical storms of summer; and taming the semi-off grid, 1970 camper she named Bear Shack.When not exploring, she has worked with over 6,000 kids while engaged in outreach education and non-profit social service work.She founded the e-journal Quiet Mountain Essays, serving as its Contributing Editor for ten years while conducting poetry workshops in prisons through the journal's Prison [Poetry] Outreach Project affectionately called POP.She is the author of three chapbooks Elements, Aura, and It's Where You Find It; co-author of the poetry collection From the Lonely Cold (Scurfpea Publishing, 2009); and she edited the poetry anthology How Can You Say We Are Not Related (Scurfpea Publishing, 2012). Most recently her poetry has appeared in Bear Paw Arts Journal, Yooper Poetry, Still Life, Red Coyote, and is forthcoming in the 2025 Scurfpea Publishing anthology. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women (25th Anniversary edition) as a journalist/poet/artist.