Suzanne Underwood Rhodes is a poet, teacher and writer living in Virginia Beach, Virginia, who views her life-long labors in words and thought as a joyous reach into the holy mysteries that enflame ordinary life.
Born in Nyack, New York, as the daughter of Roger and Mary Lee Underwood, she grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and began writing poems as a child, with much encouragement from her mother who was herself a writer. She won a National Scholastic Award in the sixth grade for her poetry and later, in high school and college, published stories and poems in school literary magazines.
Her poetry collections include What a Light Thing, This Stone and Weather of the House (both Sow’s Ear Press releases). Canon Press has scheduled a sequel to her book of prose meditations, Sketches of Home. Other books include a poetry textbook,The Roar on the Other Side, and several nonfiction books: Sacred Glances, Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, and Blackboard Blackmail.
Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, such as the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Image, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, and many others. Her essays have appeared in 64, Focus on the Family, the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Literary Magazine Review, and the Writing Room.
She is a former weekly columnist for the Kingsport Times-News.
She received her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars where she was a teaching fellow, and she graduated magna cum laude from James Madison University with a bachelor's degree in English. She was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a nominee for a Pushcart Prize, a first-place winner in poetry at the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Contest, and a winner of other prizes and awards as well.
She has taught writing and literature at King College, East Tennessee State University, Old Dominion University, St. Leo University, and other schools. She is a popular workshop and seminar teacher, having taught students ranging from elementary school age to retirees.
Suzanne lives with her husband Wayne Rhodes in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and works for Angel Flight as the director of public affairs. Together, she and Wayne have five grown children and three grandchildren. They are small group leaders at their church, Trinity.
Besides writing, Suzanne's passions are birding, reading, hiking, cooking, and traveling.
Born in Nyack, New York, as the daughter of Roger and Mary Lee Underwood, she grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and began writing poems as a child, with much encouragement from her mother who was herself a writer. She won a National Scholastic Award in the sixth grade for her poetry and later, in high school and college, published stories and poems in school literary magazines.
Her poetry collections include What a Light Thing, This Stone and Weather of the House (both Sow’s Ear Press releases). Canon Press has scheduled a sequel to her book of prose meditations, Sketches of Home. Other books include a poetry textbook,The Roar on the Other Side, and several nonfiction books: Sacred Glances, Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic, and Blackboard Blackmail.
Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, such as the Spoon River Poetry Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Image, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, and many others. Her essays have appeared in 64, Focus on the Family, the Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Literary Magazine Review, and the Writing Room.
She is a former weekly columnist for the Kingsport Times-News.
She received her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars where she was a teaching fellow, and she graduated magna cum laude from James Madison University with a bachelor's degree in English. She was a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a nominee for a Pushcart Prize, a first-place winner in poetry at the Virginia Highlands Festival Creative Writing Contest, and a winner of other prizes and awards as well.
She has taught writing and literature at King College, East Tennessee State University, Old Dominion University, St. Leo University, and other schools. She is a popular workshop and seminar teacher, having taught students ranging from elementary school age to retirees.
Suzanne lives with her husband Wayne Rhodes in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and works for Angel Flight as the director of public affairs. Together, she and Wayne have five grown children and three grandchildren. They are small group leaders at their church, Trinity.
Besides writing, Suzanne's passions are birding, reading, hiking, cooking, and traveling.
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