Susan HaydenSusan Hayden is a multigenre writer. Her debut book, "Now You Are a Missing Person", a hybrid memoir in poems, stories and fragments, was published in May 2023 by Moon Tide Press. It received a Kirkus Star from Kirkus Reviews and was included in the est of 2023: Fiction and Literature from the Los Angeles Public Library, as selected by their staff. "Now You Are a Missing Person" was also a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award 2024 and a Finalist in The Zibby Awards 2023. Hayden is published in the anthologies Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press); Los Angeles In the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine (Rare Bird Books); The Black Body (Seven Stories Press), I Might Be The Person You Are Talking To (Padua Playwrights Press) and elsewhere. She is the Creator, Curator and Producer of Library Girl at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, CA, since 2009. The monthly event celebrates the written word and features poets, essayists, novelists, playwrights and singer-songwriters. The show was named Best Local Literary Series from The Argonaut's Best of the Westside. In 2015, she received the Bruria Finkel/Artist in the Community Volunteerism Award from the Santa Monica Arts Foundation. Hayden is also a playwright. Her work has been produced at The MET Theatre, The Lost Studio, South Coast Repertory's Nexus Project, EST's WinterFest, The California Studies Council, Cafe Plays and the Ruskin. She is the proud mother of singer-songwriter Mason Summit, one half of the music duo, The Prickly Pair. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, music journalist Steve Hochman. Read More Read Less