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My name is Susan Casey. I am the author of Kids Inventing! A Handbook for Young Inventors and Women Invent! Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World. I am also a journalist and my articles and photographs have appeared in Family Circle, Americana, USAir, Women’s Sports, Soap Opera Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, Inventors Digest,Electrical Contractor and many other publications.
When I was a girl, I loved reading and writing. Through the efforts of a teacher, Sr. Natalie, my first magazine article was published when I was in the seventh grade. After graduating with a degree in history from Santa Clara University, I spent a summer doing volunteer work in a small village in rural Mexico. I have since returned to Mexico many times, especially to the city of Oaxaca where I interviewed folk artists and photographed their work. It was a trip to Africa that prompted my writing career. While in my 20s, I worked as an au pair for an English family in Ghana. I was so fascinated by what I saw that I started writing and photographing as a way to share my experiences with friends and family. I have since written and taken photographs for articles about other places and about a wide range of topics such as inventors, art, oddball events, moviemaking and construction. I also embarked on a career as a teacher. I still split my time between writing and teaching.

My name is Susan Casey. I am the author of Kids Inventing! A Handbook for Young Inventors and Women Invent! Two Centuries of Discoveries That Have Shaped Our World. I am also a journalist and my articles and photographs have appeared in Family Circle, Americana, USAir, Women’s Sports, Soap Opera Digest, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, Inventors Digest,Electrica... More