Suzy Witten

Suzy Witten's career spans over twenty-five years in the entertainment industry as a filmmaker, screenwriter, story analyst, and editor for film and television. As a filmmaker, she was nominated for a Lillian Gish filmmaking award by Women In Film. She was a Walt Disney Studios Fellowship finalist for her period screenplay about the Salem Witch Hunt of 1692. Her novel based on that story, "The Afflicted Girls", won the 2010 IPPY Silver Medal for Historical Fiction (Independent Publisher Book Awards). 10/10ths is her second novel. In addition to writing novels, she is an External Affairs Media Relations Specialist and public information spokesperson for the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the aftermath of disasters.