Susan C. Ramirez

Susan C. Ramirez grew up in a working-class family in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania. Her family could not afford to buy a house, so they rented one half of an ordinary suburban duplex. But what they did have as theirs, at least in part, was the woodland hollow with its extraordinary cabin Susan describes in The Fairytales of Lightfall Hollow. It was there Susan as a young girl first fell under the magnetic spell of Mother Nature and her awesome magic.​

Yet, when Susan became an adult, she had to earn her keep. This reality compelled her to move to Washington, D.C. where she consecutively managed two committees of the U.S. Senate and directed the National Women’s Political Caucus. After that, because by then she was among the way too few financially privileged with choices, Susan chose to be a stay-at-home mom, a wonderful gig that lasted seventeen years.​

During all her many fantastic adventures throughout that long time, Susan never stopped imagining she would someday come home to the hollow. And finally, she did.​

Now Susan lives there. Her current cabin is a quaint and cozy little house full of peculiarities, imperfections, and memories that give the modest home an air of true enchantment. Sharing the same captivating abode are Susan’s loving husband, a charmer of a dog named Ember, and an imp of a cat named Pia.​

As for Mother Nature, she is still in the hollow, gracing Susan's life with her awesome magic. As she graces your life anywhere on the good Earth you happen to be.

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