In those days when I first returned, I startled easily, edgy like a doe in hard winter. Searching, grasping at grass, twigs, branches, crashing through timber, bedding down hungry. But nothing could fill me. I ran deep into the woods, up hills, down ravines, into the creek bed. I broke through the ice one morning […]
Suzanna C. de Baca
Suzanna C. de Baca is a native Iowan, proud Latina, executive, author and artist who is passionate about exploring change and transformation. A member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative, her poetry has been published widely in national and international literary magazines and journals. She is the recipient of the Derick Burleson Poetry Award and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in the rural town of Huxley, Iowa, population 4244.