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 Susan B. Johnson
Susan B. Johnson has been a professional writer for almost thirty years. Her play, Finders Weepers, won second place in a national playwright's competition, enjoyed a stage reading in Atlanta, Georgia, and was published in 1993 by Stage Door Press of American Fork, Utah. In August, 2006, Finders Weepers was performed by the Savannah Actors' Theatre as part of its annual one-act play festival and will soon be filmed by Offshoot Entertainment. Her second play, Another Man's Shoes, won honorable mention in Ohio State University's 2001 Eileen Hackert competition.
Her short stories and essays have appeared in 'Teen Magazine, Sunshine Magazine, Greenprints, the 1994 and 1996 issues of Savannah Literary Journal, the Not From Concentrate Literary Journal, and others. Her column "Washed Up" appeared for two years in the Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper Georgia Gazette, and for three years she wrote "The Grammar Game," a weekly column she created for the Savannah Morning News.She has written extensively for such newspapers and magazines as Yachting, Cruising World, Sail, Motor Boating and Sailing, and Savannah Morning News about two trans-Atlantic voyages she and her husband made aboard their 40' sailboat. She has also served as guest speaker for boating and civic organizations, book clubs, Elderhostel groups, The Telfair Museum of Art, and various others. Her non-fiction book of local history, Savannah's Little Crooked Houses: If These Walls Could Talk, was published in February of 2007 by The History Press of Charleston, South Carolina. Her novel Spirit Willing: A Savannah Haunting was published by Bonaventture Books of Savannah, Georgia in June 2007. She recently completed a residency at Dairy Hollow Writers' Colony in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where she worked on her novel-in-progress, tentatively titled Dead Reckoning. Susan Johnson earned her B.A. from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and M.A. from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago. For seventeen years she served as head of the General Studies Department at South University in Savannah, Georgia, supervising faculty and teaching composition, literature, and literary research. During the same years, she taught in the Department of Languages and Literature at Armstrong Atlantic State University.She lives, writes, and paints in Savannah, Georgia.
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