Susan April was born in Lowell in 1955. She has an MFA (Vermont College) and has published numerous short stories, essays, and poems. The Lowell/Dracut area, where she came of age in the 1960's and '70's, inspires much of her work and serves as the setting for a new piece of fiction she is working on, a murder mystery set in the Merrimack Valley. Like the speaker in the poem, "The Last House on Cabot Street", Ms. April was witness to the upheavals in culture, jobs, and family life that attended that misguided 1960's era of "urban renewal." Susan April now lives in Frederick, Maryland, with her husband and daughter. Some of her Lowell-focused poems and essays were published in 1999 by Loom Press, along with the work of three other New England authors in the book French Class: French-Canadian-American Writings on Identity, Culture, and Place (available on Bridge Review III).
 

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