Sue is a novelist and Willa Cather and Edith Lewis scholar. A former faculty member and administrator at Empire State College/State University of New York and William Woods University, she held a fellowship (1994-1996) from the American Council of Learned Societies to work on a biography of Willa Cather, and she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University and Rutgers University. From 1987-1996 she also served as a writing consultant and editor for the National Council for Research on Women.
A workforce development expert, she also co-created and ran her own successful New Mexico-based company, Employment Training Services (ETS) from 1998-2004, a multipurpose small corporation that provided trainings and placement for Levi Strauss & Co., the New Mexico Department of Labor, Associated Contractors of New Mexico, and the New Mexico Department of Transportation. Prior to starting ETS, she served as consultant to the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL), working with clients like JP Morgan/Chase Manhattan Bank and Levi Strauss providing educational and career counseling services.
She lives in Corrales New Mexico with her partner of 25 years, two horses, a miniature donkey, two goats, ten chickens, and four dogs. On the Rocks is her first published novel.
