Susan Wands is a writer, tarot reader, and actor. For thirty years, she works as an actress on Broadway, in films, regional theatre, and an off-Broadway troupe Rumble In the Red Room where she performed her own material. Her adaptation of Pride and Prejudice was performed at the Cornish Institute in Seattle Washington and new works at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she was a company member. Susan has lectured at several Occulture Berlin Conferences and with Morbid Anatomy on tarot and the artistic life of Pamela Colman Smith. A co-chair with the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, she helps produce monthly online book launches and author panels. Susan’s historical novel featuring Pamela Colman Smith is the first of a series, Magician and Fool, Book One Major Arcana Series, published by SparkPress in May 2023, won the Gold Medal in Visionary and New Age Fiction from the IPPY Awards and the Gold Medal in Visionary from the Independent Book Awards. The second book, High Priestess and Empress, will be published by Spark Press in 2024, and Emperor and Hierophant, the third book in the series, is in final edits.