Susan Lee Feathers

Susan Feathers received a B.A.in English from East Tennessee State University. and a Master's in Special Education from the University of Tennessee. Susan writes about our attachment to the land where we are born. Her nonfiction has been published in Hope Beneath Our Feet (2011) - an anthology of essays edited by Martin Keogh and published by North Atlantic Press, Songs of Ourselves (2015) edited by Blue Heron Book Works, Paean to the Earth (2008) and in magazines and journals. Susan's first novel, Threshold, was released by Fireship Press in 2016. Susan is working on a new novel based in Bowling Green, Kentucky about young farmers and their quest to regenerate farmland. The novel is a family saga with Belle Patterson, a feisty teenager who inherits the family's legacy farm and dreams of what it can be and how it can help save the land during climate change. Susan's deep love of the American landscape was fired during her childhood as a military "brat" traversing land and sea with her family but always returning to East Tennessee to her grandparents' farm in the foothills of the Smoky Mts.. She shares her work and ideas about writing on her blog, walkearth.org. Join her there!