Susan Lynn Reynolds
	Blue Pencil

Susan Lynn Reynolds is a novelist, poet, freelance editor and journalist, and an accredited writing instructor in the Amherst Writers and Artists method. She is also president of the Writers' Circle of Durham Region.

Her novel Strandia won the Canadian Library Association's Young Adult Novel of the Year award, and she won the Timothy Findley Creative Writing Prize three years in a row for her short stories and poetry. Her first chapbook of poetry, skinned, was published in 2008 and was shortlisted for the WCDR's 2008 Chapbook Challenge.

Her area of specialty is the therapeutic use of journaling and memoir, and her thesis on that topic received the Canadian Psychological Association's Award of Academic Excellence in 2006. She has been leading writing workshops for female inmates at Central East Correctional Centre for five years and received the June Callwood Award for Outstanding Volunteerism for that program. She is currently working on her Masters degree and a new novel.

Susan Lynn Reynolds was a Blue Pencil Editor at the Ontario Writers' Conference 2010.