About Susan

Susan Gabriel was born and raised in the archetypal American South. In college she studied music at the University of Tennessee, married a jazz saxophone player and started a family. After her divorce, she raised her two daughters, then one and three, completed an education degree and began working with at-risk children in the elementary schools. During this time she was also a professional musician and went to graduate school at night.
 

Susan completed a degree in counseling and became a licensed professional counselor, as well as a marriage & family therapist. She was the founder and head counselor of the Women’s Center in Charleston, South Carolina, which still provides services to women nearly twenty years after its inception.

In her 30s, Susan began to experience a spiritual awakening and studied the writings of the monk, Thomas Merton, as well as 12th century mystics and the works of C.G. Jung. She attended and led groups at the Journey into Wholeness Conference in the North Carolina Mountains. She subsequently moved with her daughters to Asheville, NC where she also did dream work with a Jungian analyst and began to write fiction.

With her daughters launched into the world, Susan lived in Colorado for several years where she explored the wild mysticism of the Rocky Mountain landscape and the American West. She then returned home to the green mountains of North Carolina where, in addition to writing, she runs her own consulting business.

Susan enjoys reading, attending Broadway plays, traveling to Tuscany, wandering in the woods, visiting with her grown daughters, and playing with her two dogs and three cats.