Susan Kietzman

Susan Kietzman grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut. She went to Connecticut College, where her mother, aunt, and grandmother went before her. After graduation, she worked in Manhattan just long enough to realize that she felt more at home in the country than in the city. This conviction did not prevent her from going to journalism school at Boston University. Kietzman next moved to Mystic, Connecticut, where she worked at a weekly and then a daily newspaper. Along the way, she met and married Ted and had three sons.

The family spent time in Aurora, Ontario, and then moved to Midland, Michigan, where Kietzman wrote fiction in the early morning, taught English composition at a community college, and worked for various public relations firms, creating content for corporate clients. When the family moved back to Connecticut, she continued teaching community college students and started writing grants for Mystic Seaport. She has since left the classroom, but Kietzman continues to fundraise for the Museum.

She spends her free time enjoying the outdoors—walking, hiking, biking—and reading good fiction by a fireplace fire.