Susan Breen

Susan Breen is the award-winning author both mysteries and “book club” fiction. Her new novel, MERRY. was recently featured in People magazine. Her short story, “Olga Popova,” won the 2024 Margery Allingham Prize for Short Fiction. Susan is also the author of the Maggie Dove mystery series and the novel, The Fiction Class, which won a Washington Irving Award from the Westchester Library Association.

Susan teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers and she’s also on the faculty of the New York Pitch Conference. She lives in a very pretty little village on the Hudson River with her husband and two fluffy cockapoo dogs. She has three grandchildren, and they are her treasures (though she loves her three children and their partners as well.)