Susy Flory is the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of eighteen books. She's founder of Everything Memoir, and the executive director of West Coast Christian Writers, a nonprofit that educates and supports Christian writers through annual conferences and many other eventes.
A graduate of UCLA, Northern Seminary, and now a doctoral candidate at Houston Theological Seminary, Susy has a background in journalism, education, and communications. She loves reading and writing stories about unforgettable people who are living lives of adventure, courage, hope, redemption, and transformation.
She first started writing at the Newhall Signal with the legendary Scotty Newhall, an ex-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and a one-legged cigar-smoking curmudgeon who ruled the newsroom from behind a dented metal desk where he pounded out stories on an Underwood Typewriter.
Susy's first book, Fear Not Da Vinci, was co-written with Gini Monroe with contributions by Ward Gasque, and published in 2006. Other books include So Long Status Quo: What I Learned from Women Who Changed the World; Miracle on Voodoo Mountain (with Megan Boudreaux); and The Good, The Bad, and the Grace of God, with Jep and Jessica Robertson. Recent books include Desired by God with Van Moody, and The Sky Below, the story of astronaut Scott Parazynski, the only man every to fly in space and summit Mount Everest.
Susy's runaway bestseller, Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zerowritten with Michael Hingson, hit the New York Times bestsellers list in both hardcover nonfiction and e-book nonfiction the first week of release. Thunder Dog has also been adapted for the stage, optioned for film, and translated into over 15 languages, including German, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, and Chinese.
Her new book, Sanctuary: The True Story of an Irish Village, a Man Who Lost His Way, and the Rescue Donkeys That Led Him Home, with Patrick Barrett, released March, 2022. For decades, Patrick's mom and dad rescued lost and forgotten donkeys in the Irish countryside, never knowing that one day, the donkeys would rescue their son, struggling from PTSD.
Susy is a member of The Authors Guild. preaches regularly in her local church, and loves mentoring leaders and writers. A breast cancer survivor of four gnarly surgeries, Susy celebrates life hiking in the High Sierras, loves to travel, and leads an annual tour called A Writers Adventure to the Emerald Isle.
I graduated in 2022 with my Masters in New Testament Studies from Northern Seminary in Chicago. I was in a cohort with Scot McKnight, and had the chance to study with Lynn Cohick, Nijay Gupta, Beth Felker Jones, and Ingrid Faro. I followed Dr Cohick to Houston Theological Seminary, and am finishing up a doctoral degree in New Testament Studies. My dissertation on women writers in the ancient world (including the biblical era) is well underway; please pray for me!
My academic publishing credits include two pieces in Nijay Gupta's Galatians: The Story of God Bible Commentary (Zondervan Academic, 2023). and a recent journal article in The Priscilla Papers, a peer reviewed journal, on the first named writer in human history,
a woman!
I also have a book called Jesus Was coming out in 2025 with Kregel Publications.
If the bio was a bit too dry and professional for you, I offer some quirky personal stuff in the form of 25 Random Facts:
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