Susan's book, Settled in the Wild, has been chosen by the Maine State Library and the Maine Humanities Council to be the nonfiction book of the Read ME Program for the summer of 2018.
Her essay, The Preserve, will appear in the May 2018 issue of Yankee Magazine.
In December 2017, Susan won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for her upcoming book, Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge. The book will be published in August of 2018.
Susan has won two Maine Arts Commission fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and The Maine Literary Award for Best Nonfiction from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in 2011. Her children’s books have been recognized as notable books in the fields of science and social studies by the Children’s Book Council, NSTA.