Description:
Step by Careful Step explore homesickness for place and time, the desire to be a part of something, the aftermath of war.
Brief description: Susheila Khera lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska and has an MFA in creative writing. Her work has appeared in Cirque-A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim, IceFloe-International Poetry of the Far North, The Northern Review, Catamaran Magazine: South Asian American Writing, and WoodenBoat Magazine.
Review Quotes: With humane insight and wonderfully precise language, Susheila Khera's poems juxtapose warm domestic scenes with the harsh realities of exile, war, and the struggles faced by the isolated individual. Each poem, beautifully imagined, holds us with its vivid writing and consoles us with its art. John Morgan, author of Archives of the Air by Salmon Poetry, River of Light: A Conversation with Kabir by University of Alaska Press, and Spear-Fishing on the Chatanika: New and Selected Poems by Salmon Poetry.