Susan Forest
Susan Forest is an award-winning fiction editor for Laksa Media. All of the Laksa anthologies to date have won or been finalists for Canada’s top speculative fiction award for Related Works: the Prix Aurora Award. In addition to short fiction, Susan edits novels (two of which have also been Aurora finalists) and memoirs.
As a writer, her novel, Bursts of Fire won the 2020 Aurora for Best YA Novel. Flights of Marigolds, second in her Addicted to Heaven series came out in 2020. She has published over 25 short stories in Canadian and international publications, including Asimov’s, Analog, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and she was an Aurora Award finalist four times for her short fiction.
Susan was SFWA’s Secretary for four years, and has appeared at many international writing conventions She loves travel and has been known to dictate novels from the back of her husband’s motorcycle.