About Susan Ashley Michael
Susan Ashley Michael's literary novel CROSSING THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS is published by Twin Oaks. Susan studied at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and St. Hilda's College at Oxford. At the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she workshopped her novel with Amy Bloom, Michael Cunningham, Maria Flook, Margot Livesey, and Michael Klein. She also studied poetry with former Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky and Billy Collins, and Screenwriting with Dyann Rivkin. She taught English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, as well as "Edit Your Writing" at Southcoast Learning Center, New Bedford, MA. She loves to travel and has lived in Northampton and Dartmouth, MA; Turin, Italy; Sarasota, FL; Murfreesboro, TN; and has enjoyed extended stays in Oxford, Paris, and Venice. She is a member of H-Film, H-Italy, H-Travel, H-Art, Murfreesboro Writers Group, and Tennessee Writers Alliance. In her free time, she enjoys co-piloting a Lake Amphibian and taking photographs.