Susanne Rubenstein is an English teacher and writer living in Massachusetts. She is the author of three books on teaching: Speak for Yourself: Writing with Voice; Raymond Carver in the Classroom: "A Small, Good Thing"; and Go Public! Encouraging Student Writers to Publish. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in such publications as Literal Latte, The MacGuffin, and The Worcester Review, and her essays on teaching have been published in The Christian Science Monitor, Voices from the Middle, and Teacher Magazine, as well as in a number of collections. She is a Fiction Editorial Assistant for the literary journal Carve.