Susan J. Atkinson is an award-winning teacher and poet born and raised in Northern England. After fifteen years working in the Toronto film industry, she now makes her home in Ottawa, Ontario, where she and her filmmaker husband have raised their four daughters. Her poetry has appeared in such journals as Arc Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, Grain Magazine, The New Quarterly, Queen's Quarterly, and Room Magazine. She was an Honourable Mention in The New Quarterly's 2023 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest and her suite, Alice, Circa 1985 was long listed for Exile Edition's 2023 Ruth and David Lampe Poetry Award. She has also won the Carleton University Literary Contest and the Canadian Authors Association's National Capital Writing Contest, and a suite from The Marta Poems was shortlisted for Exile Quarterly's Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition. She also writes stories and poetry for children and is the author of four picture books published by Little Witch Press (www.littlewitchpress.com). all things small is Atkinson's second full-length collection. Her debut, The Marta Poems, was published by Silver Bow Publishing in 2020. Visit www.susanjatkinson.com to find out more.