Sue D. Burton is a physician assistant specializing in women's health care. Her poetry has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Green Mountains Review, Mudlark, New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, and on Verse Daily. She has been awarded Fourth Genre's 2017 Steinberg Essay Prize, a Vermont Arts Council grant, and nominations for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Her chapbook Little Steel is forthcoming (Fomite Press). She holds degrees in writing from Johns Hopkins University and the Vermont College MFA and was apprenticeship-trained as a physician assistant at the Vermont Women's Health Center.

Other poems by Sue D. Burton in Verse Daily:
April 18, 2011:   "Why I'm Not Coming to My Funeral" "You don't want me there...."

Books by Sue D. Burton:

Other poems on the web by Sue D. Burton:
"I Decide to Com Back, Next Life"
Seven poems
"Back Home from NYC & Ohio..."
Fourteen poems
Two poems
Two poems

Sue D. Burton's Website.

About Box:

"Let's just get this part out of the way, Sue Burton's Box is a brilliant, imperative, masterful collection. I envy this book; I covet and adore it. It is a book of the body and the soul, of the body as a trap for the soul, and the box—from the magician's box, where the body is sawn in half, to the coffin—as a trap for the (female) body. . .It's all here—story, song, and figuration, insurgence, sorrow, and love. 'Once a woman sawn in half, always./ Though it's all in the eye—yours—the beholder,' she writes. I beheld. I urge you, too, to behold."
—Diane Seuss