Ms. Sutherland is a former Chief Solicitor with the Baltimore City Office of Law and partner associated with several Baltimore-area law firms. She has accumulated more than twenty-five years of experience representing clients in employment, civil rights, business, insurance, and family law matters. Notable cases litigated by Ms. Sutherland include a multi-million dollar suit involving allegations of fraud and undue influence by a wealth adviser and accountant; civil rights litigation involving an employer’s refusal to recognize an employee’s religious marriage; and a shareholder-initiated business dissolution suit tried before Chancellor Leo Strine of Delaware’s Chancery Court. Ms. Sutherland has also successfully represented clients before the Maryland Board of Contract Appeals and other federal, state and local agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Compliance, the Commission on Human Rights, and various Merit System Protection Boards. Ms. Sutherland has regularly represented clients in private arbitrations before FINRA, the American Arbitration Association and other organizations and in mediations. Ms. Sutherland is an attendee of the writer’s workshops at Kenyon Review, Tin House and Bread Loaf as well as the Center for Academically Talented Youth program at Johns Hopkins University, and she returned to CTY to teach in 2022. Her blog, Work Product: Law, Literature and Laxism, occasionally appeared within the pages of the Journal of the American Bar Association and hosted the Law Carnival Round-Up. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Plume, Birmingham Poetry Review, EPOCH, Best New Poets, Hopkins Review, Denver Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Anomaly Literary Journal, A Velvet Giant and Bullets into Bells, and in 2018 she won Streetlight's Poetry Prize for her poem, "An Elegant Variation."