About the Author

Susan L. Pope is the author of two books: Catching the Light, Viking 1990, a novel. And Nan, Sarah and Clare: Letters Between Friends, Avon Books, 1980, a non-fiction collaborative work. Both were reviewed in "The New York Times Book Review." Feathers, her first chapbook of poems, was published in 2013 by Finishing Line Press. Her short stories have appeared in Cape Cod's Literary Voice, Passages North and The Best of Wind among others. Her short story "Avocado" was short-listed for the Clay Potato Award. A memoir appeared in A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape Women Writers. She holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Writing from Vermont College. She received residencies at The Millay Colony for the Arts and Dorland Mountain Colony. She has given numerous readings of her work on Cape Cod including Night of New Works and Women Creating. Currently she resides in the Connecticut River Valley area of New Hampshire.

Reviews

Susan Pope's skills as story teller and artist suffuse Indifferent Light with vivid characters (oh, Ruth!) and lean images (oh! Iced pond as target). Here is a pared world, suggestive as haiku, brushed by surrealism. Modest in the infusion of her knowledge of history and art, her poems stir in this reader both admiration and curiosity. As an ardent follower of Pope's work for 35 years, it's thrilling to have a new collection-28 walking meditations. -Deirdre Callanan serves on the faculty of the New Directions Writing Program at the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis In her new book of poems Indifferent Light, Susan Pope shows us the world with "a poet's fervor, a naturalist's eye." Her poems encompass a lifetime of love and loss, remembrance and silence. Each poem is elegiac, spare and beautiful. This is a collection to spend time with, to savor. -Robin Smith-Johnson, author of Dream of the Antique Dealer's Daughter, and Gale Warnings