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A Virginia native, Susan Schmidt rows, gardens, and plays music in North Carolina near Cape Lookout and Asheville. A naturalist and poet, she has worked as an English teacher, editor, and policy scientist. A licensed captain, she grew up sailing the Chesapeake Bay, where her family has lived since the 1600s. A teacher in high school and college, she has a Ph.D. in American literature and a Masters in Environmental Sciences.


TECHNICAL AND CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS:

Dr. Schmidt leads 3 to 5-day technical or creative-writing workshops. Around the country she trains USDA Forest Service endangered-species field biologists to write environmental-assessment documents. In North Carolina she teaches technical writing to avionics engineers at the Naval Air Depot Cherry Point. She has taught writing to engineering students at the University of Virginia and NC State University. She teaches creative-writing workshops at Carteret Community College on the North Carolina coast and for county arts councils. She has led creative-writing workshops for Duke University, Asheville Writers Workshop, and Chowan College.

CONTRACT EDITING:

For a decade Dr. Schmidt has worked as contract technical editor for the USDA Forest Service. She edited the Southern Appalachian Assessment and the natural-resource survey for the Savannah River Site (Island Press, June 2005). She copyedits for university presses and writes grant proposals and curriculum.

CONTACT HER BY E-MAIL: susu@starfishnet.com

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