Susan has an MFA in screenwriting from the University Of Southern California. She wrote DirecTV’s holiday specials hosted by Darrell Waltrip and Amy Grant, and has consulted on many scripts, including the Blue Like Jazz movie.
Susan has contributed essays to Minnesota Public Radio’s Weekend America, Fresh Yarn, Burnside Writers Collective, and Steve Brown Etc. She’s performed her own work at the Comedy Central Stage and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade theater. She teaches screenwriting, sit com and sketch comedy at Azusa Pacific University, and will teach graduate screenwriting at Pepperdine University in 2011-12.
Her literary debut, Angry Conversations With God, was named a top-ten religion book of 2009 by Publisher’s Weekly and Relevant magazine, and earned many rave reviews and endorsements. The book is now out in paperback, and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and most retailers.
