With seventeen books to her credit, Susan Wingate holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University, a program that has been ranked 2nd to Harvard University’s online MFA program.

 

Susan began writing poetry in 1995 when her father was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. As a writer himself, her father wrote humorous fiction and inspired Susan’s desire to put pen to paper. She’d written on and off in her early teens and twenties but by thirty, she knew she wanted to focus on writing. And, after her father’s death, when Susan was thirty-eight, her writing felt more important to her than ever.

 

She started writing her first mystery novel in 1997 on a 1,500-mile road trip she made from Phoenix to Washington State where, in 2003, she married Bob Wingate, the man of her dreams.

 

In 2021, Susan made an unexpected segue into nonfiction.

 

She never considered writing nonfiction until Bob’s cognitive health began to fail and she started a journal which led to writing her upcoming release, a memoir entitled The Heartbreak of Time Travel (November 17, 2024).

 

Susan is currently writing another story that “holds hands” between fiction and nonfiction in what is categorized as autobiographical fiction with a layering of magical realism. She believes her focus on fiction has only helped to strengthen her nonfiction.

 

Susan's novel, How the Deer Moon Hungers received eight book awards and was an instant Amazon bestseller. 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.

 

Susan Wingate writes about big trouble in small towns and is the primary caregiver of her husband who suffers from frontotemporal dementia. They live off the coast of Washington State on San Juan Island. She is represented by Jessica Kaye with Kaye & Mills and Asli Karasuil with Asli Karasuil Telif Haklari Ajansi ve Tic in Istanbul, Turkey.