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Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) workshop facilitator and Blue Pencil Editor.
She has lived in four Canadian provinces as well as India, France, and Italy. She’s sort of settled down and currently lives on a quiet river on Williams Treaty land in traditional Anishinaabe territory with an odd assortment of humans and cats.

