Susan B. Kietzman

Fiction

I’m fascinated with the everyday. There’s a story everywhere, and it’s often deeper than it appears. Writing novels is, in part, like sweeping a magnifying glass over a breakfast table or office desk, a conversation in a car or a midnight swim; it’s a brief examination of a moment in time or a closer look at a pressing question. Perspective, too, intrigues me, how one character can see an event easily and clearly in a certain way while another holds a drastically different opinion.

I’ve published five books with Kensington Publishing: The Good Life, A Changing Marriage, The Summer Cottage, Every Other Wednesday, and It Started in June. My sixth book is about the unlikely friendship of an old woman and a teenager trying to overthrow a nursing home despot in order to restore dignity to the marginalized residents. And my seventh novel, in progress, is a look at the danger of gender stereotyping. My next novel will focus on white privilege. I like to plan ahead.

Over the years, I’ve written for newspapers and magazines, for corporations and non-profits. I’ve taught English at two community colleges and written grants for Mystic Seaport Museum. I started writing fiction when my three boys were young, before they awoke, before the demands of the day. I’m still an early riser. Coffee first. Writing next.

For more information about my novels, please visit www.susankietzman.com