Susan's work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Blueline, and Wild Onions. She lives with her husband on the edge of Hershey, Pennsylvania cornfields, where she is a writing instructor and ESL tutor. She has an M.F.A. in Writing from Goddard College.
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"That night in my sleep I return to my campus mailbox. I can see through the display window that it is crammed full of letters. I’ve been away 32 years. I am worried that my lovers have been trying to reach me and have now given up. I have no key, and there is no one around. I try the door to the post office, but it is locked. Who is still writing to me?"
From "Mourning Dove", by Susan J. Newell.
Available in Bellevue Literary Review Vol. 7 No. 2
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