Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Susan E. Sage is a fiction writer and poet. Her career as a ‘word herder’ began at age twelve on Thanksgiving Day. Born in Detroit, Michigan, she is the youngest of three daughters. Susan received an English degree from Wayne State University. During her college years, she began publishing her poetry, and was a recipient of WSU’s Tompkins Award in Creative Writing. After moving to the Flint area, she became a certified teacher in Language Arts, and also completed graduate coursework at the University of Michigan-Flint. An educator for over twenty years, Susan has worn many hats: an adult education teacher, educational coordinator, as well as an academic interventionist at both the elementary and secondary levels. During her years at Carman-Ainsworth High School, she served as both sponsor of the creative writing club, as well as editor of its annual magazine. She has also been active in a group of local authors, Writers as Instructors. Her work has appeared in Five on the Fifth, Arlington Literary Journal (Issue #84), Illuminations, Twisted Vines Literary Journal, The Birds We Piled Loosely, Referential Magazine, Storyacious, E.T.A. Literary Journal, Digital Papercut, Black Denim Lit, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Rockhurst Review, Passages North, Metis, Qua, Diceybrown, The Mochila Review, Beyond Doggerel, The Wire, and Corridors. Her first novel, Insominy, was published in 2010 (Virtualbookworm). Susan enjoys travelling and stargazing. She lives in Flushing, Michigan, with her husband, Tom, and two cats. They have a daughter, Sarah, who is also an author.