Susan is an LDS writer of fiction that is touching without being sappy, uplifting without being preachy, humorous without being contrived and true to life without being too depressing. She writes a column for Meridian Magazine called "A Beacon Light" and also writes a humor column for Senior Review, even though she contends she is only a "twenior." She won the Imitation Erma Bombeck Contest for her article "The Ghost of Housework Past" and was a runner-up with her article "Fictional Dirt." She is a popular speaker at Relief Society birthday parties and has been called a cross between Erma Bombeck and Eliza R. Snow. She lives on the Big Island of Hawaii and is married to Thom Curtis, a Sociology professor at the University of Hawaii. (She writes under her first married name to honor her first husband and not to embarrass her current one. The maiden name is so that all the boys who didn't ask her out in high school can be sorry.) Thom and Susan have a blended family of six, a daughter and five sons. They are grandparents to two beautiful granddaughters. She loves to travel and see the world, and loves to stay home and enjoy the paradise in which she lives.
