Susan Doherty

SUSAN DOHERTY's award-winning debut novel, A Secret Music ( 2015), was followed four years later by The Ghost Garden , the biography of a woman living with schizophrenia. She has worked on staff for Maclean's , and freelanced for the International Herald Tribune , La Tribune de Gen�ve , and the Independent in London; for eighteen years she ran her own advertising production company. She has served on the boards of the Royal Conservatory of Music, the Quebec Writers' Federation and Nazareth...See more

SUSAN DOHERTY's award-winning debut novel, A Secret Music ( 2015), was followed four years later by The Ghost Garden , the biography of a woman living with schizophrenia. She has worked on staff for Maclean's , and freelanced for the International Herald Tribune , La Tribune de Gen�ve , and the Independent in London; for eighteen years she ran her own advertising production company. She has served on the boards of the Royal Conservatory of Music, the Quebec Writers' Federation and Nazareth House, a home for those afflicted by addiction and homelessness. Since 2009, she has volunteered at the Douglas Institute, a psychiatric hospital, working with people living with severe mental illness. She is married to the educator Hal Hannaford. See less