Susan Wingate holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University. Her poetry, short stories, and essays have been published in journals such as the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Superstition Review, and Suspense Magazine, as well as others.

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Susan Wingate writes about big trouble in small towns and is the primary caregiver of her husband, Bob who suffers from aphasia and frontotemporal dementia.

 

Bob and Susan have been together for twenty-three years, married for twenty-two, and live off the coast of Washington State on San Juan Island.​