Susan Wider

Susan Wider is a reviver of lost stories. She is the author of It's My Whole Life, Charlotte Salomon: An Artist in Hiding during World War II, winner of the 2022 National Jewish Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Her essays and art reviews have appeared in Orion, THE Magazine, The Fourth River, and Wild Hope magazine, among others. Before becoming a full-time author, she held senior management positions at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, The Santa Fe Institute, and Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. Earlier in her career she taught American English for the French Chamber of Commerce in Normandy, France, and worked as a violinist in several professional symphony and chamber orchestras. She holds graduate degrees from The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and from the University of New Mexico. Susan lives outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.