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SUSAN O'NEILL
Susan O'Neill was born on Oct. 19, 1947, in Fort Wayne, Indiana -- a good place, as a friend once said, to be from. When O'Neill joined the army she was anti-war, a coffee-house singer of protest songs, so the move was incongruous, perhaps even idiotic but she loved irony, and she was really naïve and believed the recruiting sergeant, who told her there was a "waiting list a mile long" for nurses who actually wanted to go to Viet Nam. Her first and only published work is a fiction riff on the year-and-a-month she spent deployed as a combat operating room nurse in Viet Nam.
After leaving the army she married, spent time in the Peace Corps (1973-74, Venezuela), got her Journalism BA (1984, University of Maine at Orono), gave birth to and pretty much raised three kids, and worked in a variety of jobs-including nurse, waitress, lounge singer, envelope-stuffer, storyteller, reporter/photographer and columnist, and nursing lab teacher. She has lived in South America, Maine, Chicago, and Eastern Massachusetts. She currently resides in Brooklyn and spends her days writing, bicycling, traveling, co-editing a lovely little eZine, taking long walks, pushing
a pacifist agenda, and taking and developing black and white photographs.
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