Susan Blanshard was born in England and but later moved to New Zealand where
she spent most of her early childhood. The daughter of a Diplomat, she considers
she had a nomadic upbringing. As a girl, she was educated in the United States and
later returned to New Zealand where she had a career as an award winning senior
advertising copywriter. She was sole owner and director of Mossmoon, a creative
freelance agency. Her selected poetry, Fragments of The Human Heart appears in
World Literary Review, Projected Letters, Volume 4, 2005.

Susan writes in different locations. Subsequently, she drew on her years living
in the South Pacific. Travel writings from tropical far north Queensland, Australia;
correspondence exchanged during a sojourn in South West France. Journals and
poems written in French Polynesia. Sheetstone was completed during her year at
Piha Beach on the West Coast of New Zealand in the South Pacific, where she
returned to live for a while.

With family in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, Susan travels between New
Zealand and England. She is currently living in Hanoi completing a novel. Susan lives
with an artist. She has two grown-up children.