Susan Lefler - Editor, Writer, Soup Poet




	Susan Lefler is a freelance writer and Editor-at-Large editor for Smoky Mountain Living magazine. She has a Masters degree in Library Science from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she has lived and worked in Brevard, North Carolina since 1976. Her work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, Icarus, Appalachian Heritage, Lights in the Mountains and others. Her poem In Mendel’s Garden won honorable mention in the 2002 Appalachian Poetry Competition. Her short story The Spirit Tree, which appeared in the fall 2003 issue of Appalachian Heritage received honorable mention in the Denny Plattner Award for excellence in writing. Her children’s story The Third Owl was a finalist in the Once Upon a Story online children’s book contest in 2003. She writes regularly for Smoky Mountain Living including dining reviews and articles on literature, the arts, and the environment. She and her husband have four grown children and four grandchildren. Her hobbies are reading, dancing, loving grandchildren, and making soup. HONORS AND PUBLICATIONS 2005 Honorable Mention for the poem: Soldiers in WWI Read Maps by the Light of Glow Worms published in Passager, University of Baltimore. Honorable Mention for the poem: Rendering the Bones published in Wind: A Journal of Writing and Community. Lexington, Kentucky Essay: The Lore and Lure of the Porch published by Wind: A Journal of Writing and Community. Lexington, Kentucky Poem: Secular Chocolate published by Asheville Poetry Review Poem: Naming accepted for publication by Main St. Rag for Summer, 2006 WORK IN PROGRESS Susan Lefler is writing a book with her son Jason Lefler, a bank manager and screen play writer, on the "Sandwich Generation," baby boomers who care for aging parents while being involved in the lives of their adult children as well as their own shifting careers. She also has several manuscripts for children in process as well as a collection of poems.