Suzanne Wiltz is a New Orleans native and a graduate of Tulane University. Her poetry has appeared in Pumpernickel House: The Overgrown Door, The Southwestern Review, The Heartland Review, Spires and MockingHeart Review, among other publications. She also has contributed to The Upper Room and Protocols for a perpetual imaginary (New Orleans), edited by Ross Louis. She edits two newsletters – Poetry Newsletter and The Spark. Suzanne has been awarded grants by South Arts, Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority. In 2022 she was a Fellow of the Wild Seeds Writers Retreat, a program of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, CUNY. She serves on the Boards of Directors of Alliance Française de La Nouvelle-Orléans and Morgan City Live Community Concert Association. Suzanne is a member of Just Write (New Orleans) and Green River Writers (Louisville). Suzanne and her beloved cat, Mikey Alexander, live in Louisiana.