Sue Hardebeck has been writing poetry off and on for four decades but is only just beginning to get serious about publishing something. She originally hails from the Chicagoland area and now teaches at a community college in Southern Illinois, where she lives out in the rolling countryside and enjoys sitting on the back patio listening to the frog music in the evenings. She is inspired by her students who take her mythology and literature classes, and hopes that they learn that life is one long metamorphosis.