ABOUT
Short Bio
I am a freelance writer, researcher and editor specialising in international development, medical fiction and local history. Currently, I publish regularly in medical humanities journals worldwide and will participate in a course entitled Representing Medicine at the Australian National University Medical School in Canberra, Australia. Being President of Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight (BODHI) (www.bodhi.net.au) since 1989 has given me experience in overseas development. Details available upon request.
Long bio
Act I. Childhood. Scene 1. One starry night a few months before she was born, Susan Woldenberg's mother, Irene Violet, sat on the front porch in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, craving ice cream and staring at the stars. Hence Susan's love of sweets and her middle name: Starr. Read more
Professional memberships
Australian Society of Authors
NEWS
February 2012. 'Black Bag Moon: Doctors' Tales from Dusk to Dawn' is in production at Radcliffe. Publication date: June, 2012. More news as it develops.
Medical humanities
January 2012. I am now on the International Editorial Board of Hektoen International, an online medical humanities journal out of Chicago, USA, to which I sometimes submit short stories.
Your ideas very welcome. We're working on new definitions of medical fiction, something other than hospital dramas, medical thrillers, bodice-ripping romance and thinly-veiled personal reminiscences and anecdotes. Please throw in your two cents' worth!
Accepted!
17 November 2011. Black Bag Moon, the second work of medical fiction, has been accepted for publication by Radcliffe Publishing in the UK (http://www.radcliffe-oxford.com/).
Seeking publishers
The AFTBACK Chronicles
Contemporary satire. Three stuffed animals endure internet brides and bear poaching in China, autism in the Wild West and cyberspace psychoanalysis so their human mistress can endure a year's separation from her husband. Read more
Just Add Nauseam
Modern mystery. What lurks beneath the surface in Tasmania? Asylum seekers save the day. Eco-terrorists, old wills, egotistical chefs and a climate change scientist as murder suspect are waiting for you ... Read more
Other news
Secrets from the Black Bag
Recommended Text of General Practice Training Tasmania and Recommended Reading for the [medical] Association of Course Organisers in the UK.
Please contact agent or author
July-August 2011
* 'Blind faith' from Secrets from the Black Bag is now appearing in the (northern) Spring volume of Hektoen International
* Secrets from the Black Bag is now on the Recommended Texts list of General Practice Training Tasmania, as well as the Association of Course Organisers in the UK.