A native Minnesotan, Susan Koefod spent much of her girlhood taking long bicycle rides and walks through hilly Dakota County and along the Mississippi River. Such excursions typically filled her imagination with poetry and story ideas. She invariably thought of herself in the third person and was the first character in her early stories. Ultimately, she relegated herself to the background as she could always invent more interesting characters to play the starring roles.
Susan Koefod is an award-winning novelist. Her Arvo Thorson mystery series debuted with Washed Up which was praised by Library Journal as “a smashing debut with astute observations and gorgeous prose.” The series includes Broken Down and Burnt Out. Her latest novel is Albert Park: a Memoir in Lies. Her short stories have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and other places. Susan is a winner of a Loft McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, a distinction of excellence and a $25,000 award open to Minnesota fine artists and writers.
She lives in West St. Paul, Minnesota, with her family.

She lives in West St. Paul, Minnesota, with her family.

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