About
Susen Edwards is the founder and former director of Somerset School of Massage Therapy, New Jersey's first state-approved and nationally accredited postsecondary school for massage therapy. During her tenure, she was nominated by Merrill Lynch for "Inc. Magazine's" Entrepreneur of the Year Award. After the successful sale of the business, she became an administrator at her local community college. She is currently secretary for the board of trustees for her town library and a full-time writer.
Susen graduated from East Stroudsburg University with a degree in education and a minor in English. She earned a master's degree in professional studies and twelve graduate credits in online teaching and learning from Thomas Edison University.
Her passions are yoga, cooking, reading, and, of course, writing.
She lives in Central New Jersey with her husband, Bob, and her two fuzzy feline babies, Harold and Maude.
Her first adult novel, "What a Trip," from She Writes Press, is scheduled for publication on November 15, 2022.
Featured Work
What A Trip
In this fast-paced coming-of-age novel, we meet Fiona, an art student at a New Jersey college who is brilliant, beautiful, and struggling to find herself. Through her eyes, we relive the turbulent culture of sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll, the first draft lottery since World War II, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, the Kent State University shootings, and the harsh realities of war for Americans in their early twenties.
Fiona’s best friend, Melissa, is in a dead-end relationship, pregnant, and going nowhere fast. After Melissa’s abortion, Fiona and Melissa spend a week in Florida, where they are introduced to tarot cards and the anti-war movement. Following this experience, Melissa becomes obsessed with the occult. Fiona, though intrigued, approaches the tarot cautiously, with the voice of her conservative Christian mother screaming in her head.
After Fiona’s return from Florida, she begins dating Reuben—a journalism major and political activist. Reuben decides to move to Canada to avoid the draft and encourages Fiona to accompany him. But is that really what she wants?
Caught between her feelings for Reuben and her own aspirations, Fiona struggles to define herself, her artistic career, and her future.
