Susan Colasanti

The author of my book, Something Like Fate, is Susan Colasanti. Susan is from a small town in New Jersey, Peapack-Gladstone. Her town was surrounded by other small towns and mostly woods. Even though she was raised in the country she always dreamed of moving to the city one day. In high school, Susan says, she was an outsider. She was an only child so she spent a lot of time alone, she had a few friends but she believed that none of them really got her, "Books were my true friends." says Colosanti in an article written by herself on her website. Susan always loved giving back to the community, she has been a hospital candy striper, a Girl Scout leader-in-training, and the arts & crafts director at a sleep-away camp for children affected by AIDS. When she finally did leave her life in a small town of New Jersey, she went to the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating, Colosanti moved to New York City and received her master's degree in Physics Education from NYU. When Susan first started teaching she lived on the Upper West Side, she had heard of some schools in some other neighborhoods that didn't have basic supplies, and she heard how kids didn't have science teachers that cared about them. So she packed up her stuff and ended up teaching High school Physics and EArth Science in the South Bronx from 2000-2007.

After teaching for a few years Susan realized it was possible to have more than one career. She wrote two books while she was a teacher, When It Happens and Take Me There. Then she decided to leave her teaching career so that she could dedicate herself to writing teen novels.

The reason I used and trusted my source is because it was written by Susan Colasanti herself.