Susan Hay­den is a multi­genre writer, pub­lished in the antholo­gies Beat Not Beat (Moon Tide Press); Los Ange­les In the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Gold­mine (Rare Bird Books); The Black Body (Sev­en Sto­ries Press), I Might Be The Per­son You Are Talk­ing To (Pad­ua Play­wrights Press) and else­where. She is the Cre­ator, Cura­tor and Pro­duc­er of Library Girl, a words + music lit­er­ary series. Orig­i­nat­ing in 2009 at Ruskin Group The­atre in San­ta Mon­i­ca, CA, the show cel­e­brates the writ­ten word and fea­tures poets, essay­ists, nov­el­ists, play­wrights and singer-song­writ­ers. In 2015, she received the Bruria Finkel/​Artist in the Com­mu­ni­ty Vol­un­teerism Award from the San­ta Mon­i­ca Arts Foun­da­tion. Hay­den is also a play­wright. Her work has been pro­duced at The MET The­atre, The Lost Stu­dio, South Coast Reper­to­ry’s Nexus Project, EST’s Win­ter­Fest, The Cal­i­for­nia Stud­ies Coun­cil, Cafe Plays and the Ruskin. She is the proud moth­er of singer-song­writer Mason Sum­mit, one half of the music duo, The Prick­ly Pair. She lives in San­ta Mon­i­ca with her hus­band, music jour­nal­ist Steve Hochman. Hayden’s first book, Now You Are a Miss­ing Per­son, a hybrid mem­oir in poems, sto­ries and frag­ments, was pub­lished in June 2023 by Moon Tide Press.