Susannah Sheffer teaches writing (and other things) to young people at North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens in Sunderland, Massachusetts. She also works as a therapist at a local mental health agency, often with people who have experienced trauma. All of this in some way informs her perspective on the Hansel and Gretel story. Susannah’s poetry chapbook This Kind of Knowing was published by Cooper Dillon Books in 2013 and more recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Copper Nickel, Tar River Poetry, the Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her book Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experience of Capital Defense Attorneys was also published in 2013.
I just “discovered” Susannah Sheffer because she was the editor of the Innovators in Education series which republished Ken Macrorie’s UPTAUGHT in 1996. I am writing an essay about Ken Macrorie entitled GOOD WORKS: SEARCHING KEN MACRORIE. I would like very much to communicate with Ms. Sheffer about Ken Macrorie and her work with this series. Can somebody please help me contact her? Thank you very much. Nick Kekic of Kalamazoo, Michigan.