On the Edge

Susan A. Katz has had a love affair with poetry since the age of six. She has read it, written it, even dreamed it, and it has shaped her life and her view of the world, and of herself. Susan finds inspiration for her poems in the everyday business of living, of family joys and sorrows, in the stories of others, and in the vast and ethereal landscape of the natural world. Her poems reveal her intense passion for the living quality of language. On the Edge captures, with intensely personal poems, the human experience and examines the ways in which we are all connected through our shared humanity.Her poems have been called “meditative and lyrical… exhibiting a strong sense of wistfulness and loss,” by poet Colette Inez, and “terribly powerful… oddly strong… wonderful,” by poet Dan Masterson.

Susan A. Katz is a poet, author, teacher, and workshop facilitator. She is the author of six books of poetry, two textbooks espousing the integration of the arts into school curriculum, numerous articles exploring the benefits of integrated teaching, and has had her poetry appear in national and international magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her venture into the realm of children’s stories was inspired by her seven grandchildren. She wrote Little Bear and You for her granddaughter who was feeling “under loved”. Little Bear took on a life of his own and Susan continues to write her stories, even though her grandchildren are now grown. “Our characters become a part of us,” Susan says, “and it is hard to let them go.”