A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Johns Hopkins University's Writing Seminars, she has written for several magazines and reported for daily papers in California, Nevada and Colorado. During her 13 years at The Denver Post, she covered politics, wrote a metro news column and worked on a year-long investigative project about evidence destruction that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Susan has two sons who think it would be way neater if she were a cop rather than a reporter.