Published in numerous anthologies, Susie Serra is pleased to offer this second edition of her poetry, "Shadowprints," which was first published in 1996. Susie enjoys writing prose as well as verse and is the author of "Past Forgetting," a memoir of her father, and "The Binding," a discussion of the Biblical recounting of the binding of Isaac. Susie studied creative writing at Washington State University, and poetry will always remain her true love.

In 1987, Susie Serra had the opportunity to spend a week in Russia, then the Soviet Union, during "glasnost," the new policy of "openness" instigated by Mikhail Gorbachev. Follow her as she bonds with the country of her grandmother Anna's birth, through Moscow and on to Peter the Great's "Venice of the North," then called Leningrad. Follow her as she falls in love with a country, a culture, a heartland, all "In a Week's Lifetime."