About
Athird-generation native Arizonan, Susan Wells Bennett was born andraised in Phoenix. As a child, she wrote a letter to then-PresidentCarter that was published in a local daily newspaper. From then on, shewanted to be a writer when she grew up – that, or President. Atsixteen, she left Arizona to attend Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri,for two years. Returning to Arizona, she attended Arizona StateUniversity as an English major. She spent a fair amount of the nextdecade trying to escape the Southwest, but never succeeded.Susan workedin and around the real estate and home-building industries for themajority of the last two decades, a career that evolved into a positionas a writer and editor for one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. In2009, with the support of her husband, she began writing novelsfulltime. To date, she has completed four novels and is working on herfifth.She has no plans to run for political office in the near future.
