Suzy has always had her head in the clouds. As a kid, she could be swept away in the dramatic world of her little, plastic Lego people. As a teenager, biking around Winnipeg, she travelled through mystical portals into parallel worlds with roads and houses that looked eerily similar to the ones familiar to her. And, of course, she immersed herself in stories – whether they were packaged in tv shows, books, songs, or video games. It wasn’t long before she was typing up sci-fi adventures on her dad’s word processor and hiding dark, fantastical poetry in a wooden box made in shop class. Words were a way to capture the worlds in her imagination, clarify fuzzy thoughts, and work through sharp emotions.

Suzy is grateful for her family, including her brave and thoughtful 5-year-old daughter. She and her family live and work in Vancouver, on the beautiful, unceded ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She would like to acknowledge that she was born and raised in Treaty 1 territory, the traditional homeland of the Anishinaabe people. Suzy is a settler and, on her mother’s side, a second-generation immigrant from the Philippines. In addition to parenting and buzzing around from project to project, Suzy is on the journey of writing a memoir and two (ok, maybe three) novels. She is learning to have patience and compassion for herself and to find joy in her creative process, flighty as it may be.