Suzanne Kingsbury was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in Guilford, Connecticut. She has since lived in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Deep South, the Southwest, New England, Mexico and Panama. Both her novels, The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me (Scribner, 2002) and The Gospel According to Gracey (Scribner, 2004) have been optioned for film and translated extensively in foreign markets. Her new novel, The Peace of Wild Things is set in Panama during the time of Noriega. She is the co-editor of the anthology of southern writers, The Alumni Grill (Macadam and Cage, 2004) and has been anthologized in The Blue Moon Café and At My Grandmother’s Table. Suzanne’s writing has appeared in Atlanta Magazine and Glamour magazine, among many others. She won the 1999 Oxford Town Fiction Prize, has been an artist-in-residency at Yaddo, and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Sri Lanka, where she studied temple ritual and ceremony and learned Kandyan dance and drumming. She has used her teaching technique: Where the Wild Things Are at workshops at Mississippi State, The University of Georgia, PIMA writing program, Ohio Wesleyan University, the Lost State Writer’s Conference, Tennessee’s Council for the Written Word and in prisons and secondary schools across the country. In 2007, Suzanne founded Words without Walls, a program that connects authors to people in rehabilitation centers, prisons and military bases in Iraq. She owns an editing business for emerging writers in Brattleboro, Vermont, where she is one of the principal organizers of The Brattleboro Literary Festival. She has made a second home in Panama City, Panama.