Susan Engle spent her childhood having adventures in the woods and reading by flashlight under the covers at night, because there just wasn’t enough time to finish all the books from the library during the day. She fell in love with singing, the local summer theatre, and her neighbor’s cabinet of miniatures. After finishing high school in Michigan, she returned to her childhood home, Granville, Ohio, and earned a BFA in Theatre Arts from Denison University in 1972. She nurtured her love of music by working as an apprentice at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and traveling throughout Europe and the United States as a soloist with various choirs and with a folk/rock band. She has also worked as a stage manager for operas produced by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and spent college summers in Actors Equity summer stock at the Barn Theater in Augusta, Michigan. After her twin daughters were born in 1973, Susan began writing songs and poems for children, publishing more than 70 over the years, including the award-winning "Come and Sing" CD. This first CD was followed by "Loving Hands," "Special Times," and "Arm in Arm," which won a Religion Communicator’s Council Best of Class Award and an Angel Award from Excellence in Media in 2009. Susan joined the staff of "Brilliant Star" children’s magazine in 1995 as an editor and writer. In 2012, she contributed poetry to Jacqueline Mehrabi’s "Bahá’í Holy Days: Stories and Poems for Children." In 2016, Susan created her first tiny book, "The Bahá’í Faith: A Tiny Introduction," followed by "A Tiny Book of Prayers" and a Spanish version of the Tiny Introduction, "La Fe Bahá'í: Una Pequeña Introducción." She is retired from her editorial work for "Brilliant Star," but continues to write and edit new projects from her home that houses a collection of miniatures in West Lafayette, Indiana. You can read and download her poetry at https://IambicNana.com.
