Biography and Résumé

BIO
From the stages of New York City to the pages of Life Magazine, Susan spent her youth flourishing as a dancer/actor. During and after college, she enjoyed a stint as a professional actor, and then moved to Southern California, to pursue her passion of movie-making as a script supervisor, director and writer.
During this time, Susan wrote her award-winning screenplay, Cloudberries, and went on to garner the following awards:

• Carl Sautter Memorial Screenwriting Award—one of the top four prize-winning screenplays
• Writer's Digest Short Story Award—main stream genre
• Homberg Award for best commercial of San Diego
• Editor’s Choice Award for poetry

Susan currently writes, edits and coaches other writers while nurturing her own creative life as a biographer, novelist and screenwriter.

RÉSUMÉ
As a writer, editor, coach and workshop facilitator, Susan applies over 30 years of creative work experience to the task of collaborating on written communications that create impact, word-by-word, page-by-page, project-by-project.

Writing Workshop Facilitator:

• Descanso Gardens: All day memoir workshop
• Private and public venues: ongoing writing workshops 10 – 40 meetings

Published Works as Writer Editor Coach:

• Newspaper column ~ ongoing, Local Newspaper
• Fabulous Fifth ~ memoir/educational/inspirational book
• It Doesn’t Have to be Ugly ~ eBook on divorce
• Change Your Postures, Change Your Life ~ co-authored with Dr. Mike Spearman
• Surviving Cancer ~The Magic Ingredients, Editor/coach
• Feature article on artist Sheldon Figoten for Fabrik Magazine
• The biography, From Immigrant to Innovator, the Vision, Work and Legacy of Adolf Schoepe (writer, editor, producer)
• The screenplay, American Spirit (Coach, editor)
• The unabridged audio book version of From Immigrant to Innovator (director)
• The Film: Adolf Schoepe, The Founder of Fluidmaster (writer, director, producer)
• A novella: Dancing with Gravity, the Rescue and Rehabilitation of a Teenage Runaway
• Memoir of a Female Firefighter (coach and editor)
• Training film scripts for the legal community (writer)
• Break-dancing documentary treatment (writer)
• Educational curricula for HBI, World Literacy Crusade, The Learning Net (writer)
• Small business public relations and marketing materials (consultant, writer)
• Profiles, wedding copy, eulogies, speeches, letters for individuals (writer, editor)
• Magazine & newspaper articles
• Short stories, essays and poetry

Education:

• Boston University: College of Liberal Arts (English) & School of Fine Arts (Theatre Arts)
• Advanced Studies: Dr. Linda Seger, Robert McKee, Syd Fields, John Truby, Sharon Cobb,
  Long Ridge Writers' Group, UCLA courses

Honors:

• Carl Sautter Memorial Screenwriting Award—
• Writer's Digest Short Story Award—main stream genre
• Homberg Award for best commercial of San Diego
• Editor’s Choice Award for poetry

Affiliations: SCBWI, The Alameda Writer's Group, IWOSC

References: Available upon request