In another life, Susan cleaned funeral homes and vacuumed around the dead. An unspoken element of respect existed within that job; the intimate invitation into people's lives is never taken lightly. Susan's work has appeared in The Sun Magazine, .Cent Magazine, Rain Taxi Review of Books and Water~Stone Review.
Susan is an artist first, a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work is a search for a light in the dark. Her paintings have shown in Flash Frog, Midway Journal, New England Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Hayden's Ferry Review, Brink and Penn Review. Most recent paintings can be seen on Instagram at solomon.painter.
Kathy believes in fiction and the truths it can tell. She loves being part of the Sleet Lady family.
Pamela Schmid is a St. Paul-based writer and editor. She was a recipient of the 2013-14 Loft Literary Mentor Award in nonfiction and the runner-up for the 2014 Wabash Prize for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, Blue Mesa Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Baltimore Review and elsewhere. Before receiving her MFA degree in creative writing from Hamline University, she spent more than a decade as a staff writer for the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Her online home is pamelaschmid.com.
Todd Pederson holds Masters degrees in Business Communication and Creative Writing from the University of St. Thomas and Hamline University, respectively. An avid poetry fanboy, he is particularly addicted to the art of Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, James Merrill, John Berryman, Cole Swensen and Stephanie Burt.
Professionally employed as a technical writer, he still scribbles verse whenever time and life permit. Todd resides in Eden Prairie with his wife and college-age children, whom he thanks for their patience and inspiration.
Jamie Lynn Resneck-Buehner earned her MFA at Hamline University, and lived and worked in Istanbul, Germany, and Alaska before settling down with her family in Sonoma County, California. She has been a proud member of Team Sleet since 2016. Follow her online at https://angelfrommontgomery.org/.
Sleet Lady pioneered NASA's new top-secret poetry project, Flying Pearls, until it unfortunately was cancelled due to privatization. She has worked as a medic in numerous wars and conflicts around the globe and was happy to serve as a volunteer frontline worker offering vaccinations to her fellow cartoons. Sleet Lady is also a pioneering AI researcher and well versed in the herbal arts.
Perhaps one of Sleet Lady’s most exciting career switcharoos is her current focus on running for United States president in 2028. She obviously needs no exploratory campaign! Sleet Lady is working with her cartoon mentor, Lisa Simpson, the first woman cartoon president, with whom she shares values and aspirations. Like Lisa, she is ready to clean up the poopoo left on the floors, halls and American psyche by 47.
Sleet Lady's big flat heart belongs to the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and the Cartoonists Rights organization.