A
third-generation native Arizonan, Susan Wells Bennett was born and
raised in Phoenix. As a child, she wrote a letter to then-President
Carter that was published in a local daily newspaper. From then on, she
wanted to be a writer when she grew up – that, or President. At
sixteen, she left Arizona to attend Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri,
for two years. Returning to Arizona, she attended Arizona State
University as an English major. She spent a fair amount of the next
decade trying to escape the Southwest, but never succeeded.Susan worked
in and around the real estate and home-building industries for the
majority of the last two decades, a career that evolved into a position
as a writer and editor for one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. In
2009, with the support of her husband, she began writing novels
fulltime. To date, she has completed four novels and is working on her
fifth.She has no plans to run for political office in the near future.
