Susan Delaney Spear is an Associate Professor of English (retired from Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado). She has published two collections of poetry: Beyond All Bearing (2018, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock) and On Earth…(2022, Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock). She is the co-author (with Dr. David J. Rothman) of Learning the Secrets of English Verse, a creative writing poetry textbook (Springer, 2022). Her poems have appeared widely in print and on-line journals. She is now an adjunct professor at Saint Leo University, near Tampa, Florida, where she now lives. www.susandelaneyspear.com