Susan Snively, PhD

Susan Snively, PhD, is the author of four books of poetry and the novel The Heart Has Many Doors, which is about Dickinson. She has taught at Smith, Mount Holyoke, and Amherst Colleges, and has received fellowships from the NEA and the Massachusetts Artists Foundation. For twenty-seven years she directed the Writing Center at Amherst College, which she helped to found. As a guide at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Snively wrote and narrated the films Seeing New Englandly and My Business Is to Sing, produced by Ernest Urvater, in the series "Angles of a Landscape." She regularly leads discussions on various aspects of Dickinson for the museum's monthly poetry group.

From the dust jacket of Poetry For Kids: Emily Dickinson