Suzanne Ondrus’ poetry books Passion Seeds and Death of an Unvirtuous Woman deal with history, foreign cultures, women’s sexuality, racism, identity, and domestic violence serve as platforms for discussion of these taboo topics. She was the 2013 Reed Magazine Markham Poetry Prize winner, a 2017 featured UNESCO World Book Capital poet in Guinea, Conakry, and a 2018-2020 Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso. She presently lives in Bogota. Hear her read her poems on her YouTube channel.