Her poems are moments sealed in bubbles, fragile yet fearsome, floating upwards until they break upon your imagination with a small pop. Author Susan Schaefer invites the reader to pause, reflect and delight as she lifts the Mississippi River like a sheet from its banks or creates a victory crown riding the new morning "each bead of sweat, a self-wrought jewel."

Dr. Schaefer's principle research interests are in the application of advanced diagnostic imaging techniques (MRI, CT, Ultrasound) in small animal orthopedics. She developed an MRI atlas of the canine shoulder joint and has published on both normal and abnormal findings in the canine shoulder as seen with MRI