Susan Elizabeth Howe lives with her husband in Ephraim, Utah and teaches at Brigham Young University. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has also published stories and plays, and she has been editor of Exponent II and The Denver Quarterly and poetry editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Her collection, Stone Spirits (1997), received the Association for Mormon Letters Award in poetry.