Susan, who has a B.A.in anthropology from Barnard College (Columbia Univ.), and an interdisciplinary masters in art and writing from CSU Chico, has been teaching writing workshops to adults, children, youth-at-risk and teachers-in-training since 1980. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous journals and her article, “Coyote Made Me Do It: Teen Voices in a Juvenile Hall” was published in Teachers and Writers’ Magazine. Excerpts from her lifelong journal are in The Writer’s Way. A poem and interview with Susan were featured in the 1999 Poet’s Market.

Since publishing poemcrazy, Susan has been making bookstore, TV and radio appearances nationwide. She’s held hundreds of workshops including sessions for the National Assoc.of Poetry Therapy, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), The Bay Area Great Books Club, The Chicago Teacher’s Center, The California Writer’s Club at Asilomar, the Hendrick’s Institute’s Mastership program in Santa Barbara and the International Women’s Writing Guild. She was a speaker at the 2002 John F. Kennedy University convocation.

Susan is now completing a book on writing and collage.