Christmas in Dogtown (5 page)

About the Author

Photo by:
D
ianne Ludlam

Suzanne Johnson writes urban fantasy from
Auburn
,
Alabama
, on top of a career in educational publishing that has thus far spanned five states and six universities (including both
Alabama
and
Auburn
, which makes her bilingual). She grew up in
Winfield
,
Alabama
, halfway between the
Bear
Bryant
Museum
and Elvis' birthplace but was also a longtime resident of
New Orleans
, so she has a highly refined sense of the absurd and an ingrained love of SEC football, cheap Mardi Gras trinkets, and fried gator on a stick. Royal Street, the first in the Sentinels of New Orleans urban fantasy series, was released in April 2010 by Tor Books; book two,
River Road
, will come out on November 13
, 2012
.

Fun Facts

- She on
ce trapped a rat
(
with a fireplace poker
)
in
a popcorn tin,
with
a slice of German Chocolate cake (
n
ot recommended)
.

- She
know
s
the words to both the
Alabama
and
Auburn
fight songs (sacrilege!).

- She
can pop
her
right thumb out of joint because of a childhood injury playing pirate ship.