A grad­u­ate of The Mid­dle­bury Insti­tute of Inter­na­tion­al Stud­ies at Mon­terey and of the Uni­ver­si­ty of New Mex­i­co, Susan Wider has writ­ten for Ori­on, THE Mag­a­zine, The Fourth Riv­er, and Wild Hope mag­a­zine, among oth­ers. Before becom­ing a full-time writer, she held senior man­age­ment posi­tions at the Geor­gia O’Keeffe Muse­um, The San­ta Fe Insti­tute, and the Lovelace Res­pi­ra­to­ry Research Insti­tute. Ear­li­er in her career she taught Amer­i­can Eng­lish for the French Cham­ber of Com­merce in Nor­mandy, France and worked as a vio­lin­ist in sev­er­al pro­fes­sion­al cham­ber and sym­pho­ny orches­tras. It’s My Whole Life is her first book. She lives out­side San­ta Fe, New Mexico.