ABOUT
Susan Wingate, born in Phoenix, Arizona to James & Amie Ajamie (a writer and an artist, respectively), began creating characters as early as five years old, she suspects. Extremely shy as a child, her mother threw her into ballet and tap instruction and into the world of theatre, hoping for her daughter's shyness to recede. Wingate believes her theatre training has helped her development of character and storytelling.
Wingate tried to fly at age five off the roof of her house using newspaper, wire hangers and scotch tape. She's been dreaming of flying ever since. Oh, by the way, she never jumped. Her mother ran out in the nick of time to stop her from take-off.
At age seventeen, Wingate realized her dreams when she entered the world of writing. In the beginning, she wrote songs and poetry but then her writing blossomed when she tried her hand at fiction.
In 1997, she devoted her days to writing and in 2004, she began writing full-time. Since then, Susan has written several plays, one screenplay, two short story collection, one memoir and five novels with two more scheduled to be written in 2010.
Wingate, no longer shy, is a rambunctious workshop presenter at writers conferences, libraries and bookstores. She's even been known to give instruction for private groups as well.
A lover of the arts, Susan draws and paints abstracts using oil as her favored medium. She has taken up playing the violin (it's been a squeakly start) and she loves the theatre.
Location:
Washington State
Pacific Standard Time Hours:
Mon - Fri: 8AM - 6PM
Sat: 10AM - 5PM
