Susan E. Wadds
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Susan E. Wadds

Winner of The Writers’ Union of Canada’s prose contest, Susan Wadds’ award-winning fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in various literary journals, including The Waterwheel Review, Third Street Review, Funicular,The Blood Pudding, Room, Quagmire, and carte blanche magazines. The first two chapters of her debut novel, “What the Living Do” won Lazuli Literary Group’s prose contest, published in Azure Magazine. A graduate of the Humber School for Writers, Susan is a certified Amherst Writers and Artists (AWA) writing workshop facilitator.
She lives in Ontario, Canada by a quiet river in traditional Anishinaabeg territory with an odd assortment of humans and cats.

As a settler married to an Ojibwe man and with whom I have a son, my experiences with that culture colour much of my work. My novels, creative non-fiction, and short stories, written from a settler point of view, often include Indigenous characters.

My characters make mistakes. They don’t see themselves as victims, but rather as unintentional perpetrators who carry burdens of guilt, shame, and regret. The transformative arc of my stories shows that what we want or think will set us free isn’t what we imagined. What truly sets us free is relaxing the stranglehold on ourselves. My characters aren’t heroes. They are searching, however ineffectually, for what is true. Sometimes they find it.
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