About the Author

Susan B. Johnson has been a professional writer for over thirty years. Her play, Finders Weepers, won second place in a national playwright's competition, enjoyed a stage reading in Atlanta, and was published in 1993 by Stage Door Press of American Fork, Utah. In August, 2006, Finders Weepers was performed by Cardinal Rep as part of its annual one-act play festival. Her second play, Another Man's Shoes, won honorable mention in Ohio State University's 2001 Eileen Hackert competition.

Susan's short stories and essays have appeared in 'Teen magazine, Sunshine magazine, Greenprints, two issues of Savannah Literary Journal, Savannah Magazine, and others. One of them was chosen as a finalist in the 2008 Stonehouse Press Short Story Competition, and another won first place in a Georgia Writers' Association short story competition in October, 2008.

Her column "Washed Up" appeared for two years in the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper Georgia Gazette, and for three years she wrote "The Grammar Game," a weekly column she created for the Savannah Morning News.

She has written extensively for such newspapers and magazines as Yachting, Cruising World, Sail, Motor Boating and Sailing, and Savannah Morning News about two trans-Atlantic voyages she and her husband made aboard their 40' sailboat. She has also served as guest speaker before various boating and civic organizations.

Her non-fiction book of local history, Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk, was published in February, 2007 by The History Press of Charleston, SC. Her novel, Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting, was published by Bonaventture Books of Savannah, GA, in June 2007.

In recognition of her artistic merit, Susan was selected for inclusion on both the Georgia Writers Registry and on the registry of SouthernArtistry.com. In May, 2008, she was nominated for the award of 2007 Georgia Author of the Year.

Susan Johnson earned her B.A. from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and M.A. from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. For seventeen years she served as head of the General Studies Department at South University in Savannah, Georgia, supervising faculty and teaching composition, literature, and literary research. During the same years, she taught in the Department of Languages and Literature at Armstrong Atlantic State University.

She lives, writes, and paints in Savannah, Georgia.