A community college English instructor for most of her career, SuzAnne C. Cole now concentrates on writing in her studio in the Texas Hill Country. Her poems have been published in many anthologies and magazines and she's won a Writer’s Digest Personal Poetry contest and a haiku festival in Japan. She was a juried poet at the 2003 and 2005 Houston Poetry Fests and a featured poet at the 2004 event. She's also published a book, To Our Heart's Content: Meditations for Women Turning 50 (Contemporary) and had essays, short fiction and plays published in a variety of anthologies, journals and newspapers including Newsweek, The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express-News, The Baltimore Sun, and Troika.