Susan L. Leary is the author of five poetry collections: More Flowers (Trio House Press, forthcoming 2026); Dressing the Bear (Trio House Press, 2024), selected by Kimberly Blaeser to win the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence; A Buffet Table Fit for Queens (Small Harbor Publishing, 2023), winner of the Washburn Prize; Contraband Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2021); and This Girl, Your Disciple (Finishing Line Press, 2019), finalist for The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Prize and semi-finalist for the Elyse Wolf Prize. Her poetry, nonfiction, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Indiana Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Smartish Pace, The Arkansas International, Crab Creek Review, South Dakota Review, Tahoma Literary Review, On The Seawall, Jet Fuel Review, Cherry Tree, New Orleans Review, Tar River Poetry, Bear Review, Harpur Palate, Cider Press Review, Superstition Review, DMQ Review, Louisiana Literature, Slipstream, Arcturus (Chicago Review of Books), jmww, The MacGuffin, Heavy Feather Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, Christian Century, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Rust + Moth, The Ilanot Review, Tusculum Review, Pithead Chapel, and Verse Daily. She holds a B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. from the University of Miami and lives in Indianapolis, IN.