About Sue
Susan Lynn Reynolds is a freelance writer and a creative writing instructor and has been teaching and leading writing groups for over 12 years, focusing on techniques learned in her work in New Mexico with Natalie Goldberg (of Writing Down the Bones and Wild Mind) and in Massachusetts with Pat Schneider (The Writer as an Artist and Writing Alone and with Others).
Her recent literary work has appeared in lichen literary magazine and her short story “Gargoyles in Montmartre” was accepted for the British anthology series Erotic Travel Tales. Her novel Strandia won the Canadian Library Association’s national award for Young Adult Novel of the Year. She is a three time winner of the Timothy Findley Creative Writing Award for her poetry and short stories, and a winner of the Writer’s Circle of Durham Region’s 24 Hour Online Contest. Her first poetry chapbook Skinned was launched in January 2008 and she is working on her third novel.
She is also currently doing an interdisciplinary Masters degree at Trent University where her focus is on writing for therapeutic benefit. Sue teaches creative writing to criminalized women in the Lindsay jail and in the community, work for which she has been awarded the 2007 June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism by the Ministry of Citizenship and a Social Science and Humanities Research Grant by the Canadian federal government.
Sue also supports herself by doing freelance writing and graphics with her partner through their company Piquant Productions. To find out more about that, check out Piquant Productions.
