Susa Wuorinen attended Columbus College of Art and Design and graduated from Goddard College. In between these programs, she raised nine children (not all her own) and worked for Elisabeth Kübler-Ross as a facilitator in her Death and Dying Workshops all over the world. She retired from a therapy practice in Castine, Maine, and moved to Lamoine where she creates puppets and writes and illustrates books for children. Cully's Gold is her first play.