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Susan Keith

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Susan Keith grew up in North Carolina, earned degrees at Mount Holyoke College and Emory University School of Law and practiced law for fifteen years. Her poem "A Festive Holiday Photo" was one of four runners-up in the 2007 Fish International Poetry Contest and is published in the 2007 Fish Anthology. Her poem "Remembrance" won First Prize in the 2006 Margaret Reid Poetry Prize for Traditional Verse, then was published in the anthology Sailing in the Mist of Time. Her poem "Tombstones" was published in the minnesota review after placing on the short list for beginning and emerging poets in the 2006 Being At Work Challenge. In addition to the Second Prize earned by "Visiting My Father’s Office" in the 2007 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest, her short stories "Magnolia" and "Labor of Love Day, 2005" were Most Highly Commended in the contest. "Magnolia" was also a finalist for the 2006 New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Fiction. Her poem "The Blue Laptop" was on the long list for the 2006 Bridport Prize and her poem "Debbie Reynolds and Me and the Giant Squid" was longlisted in the 2006 Fish International Poetry Contest.