Susan Geason


Susan Dorothy Geason is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for adults and teenagers.
Born in New Norfolk, Tasmania, to Urban James and Joan Susan Geason, she grew up in Queensland and graduated from the University of Queensland with a BA in History and Politics. While living in Canada, she completed a master's degree in Political Theory at the University of Toronto.
From 1979 to 1980 Geason was a Legislative Researcher in the Parliamentary Library, Canberra, and from 1980 to 1981 was education editor of The National Times.
From March 1982 to 1985 Geason was a policy officer in the Cabinet Office of the NSW Premier's Department.
From 1985 to 1987, she was head of Information and Publications with the NSW State Pollution Control Commission.
From 1991 to 1997, Geason was literary editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
Since 1987, she has worked as a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant.
The State Library of New South Wales holds the Susan Geason papers, 1989-2001, relating to the books she was writing at that time and comprising correspondence, draft manuscripts, interview notes, book plans, news clippings, research and photographs.
Geason was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland in 2005 for her thesis, "Under the Canopy of Heaven : Charlotte Brontë and Mary Taylor; What Mary Knew : The Relationship Between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë". It was published as What Mary Knew : Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë in 2011.

Publications

Adult Fiction
Crime Fiction
Teenage Fiction and Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Stories in Anthologies and Magazines
Crime Prevention'