Lighthouse Mouse Meets Simon the Cat

Susan Anderson Coons (a.k.a. Susan Anderson Coons Hawkins) lives in North Bend, Oregon, on the Oregon coast. Her first published children’s book, The Lighthouse Mouse, received the Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal IPPY award in 2007. Her poems have been danced at the International Artist Embassy Dancing Poetry Festival, with awards from poetry contests and magazines such as Poet and Embassy Dancing Poetry Festival and the Alameda County Peanut Anthology. Some published poetry books are Party in the Fields, The Chariots Have Left the Heavens, Harnessing Motion, Eternity Glimpsed, and This Fresh Pursuit. She has received numerous awards for her poetry as well as being coeditor of the anthology Wine Song. Coons has worked with artists since 1976 on a variety of poetry books, plus the children’s picture book Ibakon, Gretl and the Stinky, Sticky Dragon, with Alaskan artist Bruce W. Nelson. Coons has worked as an insurance agent and freelance writer from 1976 to 2012. She taught writing workshops for Santa Rosa, California, Parks and Recreation Adult Education, California Writer’s Club writing session on inspirational writing, and other seminars. Her column, Wine People, was published in 1976 in Contra Costa Times, Calistoga Weekly, and Russian River Gazette. Her radio show, Rendezvous, on KHUM interviewed French-speaking guests in French to share French culture from 1968 to 1969. Susan taught elementary school in Healdsburg, California, plus high school classes in Santa Rosa, California.

Susan Anderson Coons (a.k.a. Susan Anderson Coons Hawkins) lives in North Bend, Oregon, on the Oregon coast. Her first published children’s book, The Lighthouse Mouse, received the Independent Publisher’s Bronze Medal IPPY award in 2007. Her poems have been danced at the International Artist Embassy Dancing Poetry Festival, with awards from poetry contests and magazines such as Poet and Embassy Dancing Poetry Festival and the Alameda County Peanut Anthology. Some published poetry books are Party in the Fields, The Chariots Have Left the Heavens, Harnessing Motion, Eternity Glimpsed, and This Fresh Pursuit. She has received numerous awards for her poetry as well as being coeditor of the anthology Wine Song. Coons has worked with artists since 1976 on a variety of poetry books, plus the children’s picture book Ibakon, Gretl and the Stinky, Sticky Dragon, with Alaskan artist Bruce W. Nelson. Coons has worked as an insurance agent and freelance writer from 1976 to 2012. She taught writing workshops for Santa Rosa, California, Parks and Recreation Adult Education, California Writer’s Club writing session on inspirational writing, and other seminars. Her column, Wine People, was published in 1976 in Contra Costa Times, Calistoga Weekly, and Russian River Gazette. Her radio show, Rendezvous, on KHUM interviewed French-speaking guests in French to share French culture from 1968 to 1969. Susan taught elementary school in Healdsburg, California, plus high school classes in Santa Rosa, California.