Susan has worked at many things, including over twenty-five years as a dyslexia specialist, as Head of a Dyslexic Unit in a sixth form college and later as Special Needs tutor in a private practice, tutoring all ages from 4-40, including university students.
Recently, she has been working at her abstract drawings and has had two exhibitions as well as selling on SaatchiArt.
She has written plays, memoirs, travel stories, and novels with her children's novel, 'Kim's Promise' published in September 2024. One play, 'Shelley, Byron and the Allegra Story', was performed at the Keats House Festival in 2013.
Although 'Kim's Promise' is a Young Adult novel (from age eleven on), it is influenced not only by fairy tales, but also by the wonderful eastern stories of Idries Shah, which Susan used to read and were loved by her own children.