A third-generation native Arizonan, Susan Wells Bennett was born and raised in Phoenix. As a child, she wrote a letter to then-President Carter that was published in a local daily newspaper. From then on, she wanted to be a writer when she grew up – that, or President. At sixteen, she left Arizona to attend Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri, for two years. Returning to Arizona, she attended Arizona State University as an English major. She spent a fair amount of the next decade trying to escape the Southwest, but never succeeded.Susan worked in and around the real estate and home-building industries for the majority of the last two decades, a career that evolved into a position as a writer and editor for one of the nation’s largest homebuilders. In 2009, with the support of her husband, she began writing novels fulltime. To date, she has completed four novels and is working on her fifth.She has no plans to run for political office in the near future.