Suzy Witten's career spans over twenty years in the entertainment industry as a filmmaker, screenwriter, story analyst, and editor for film and television. As a filmmaker, she was nominated for a Lillian Gish filmmaking award by Women In Film. She was a Walt Disney Studios Fellowship finalist for her original period screenplay about Salem. Her subsequent debut novel, The Afflicted Girls, won the 2010 IPPY Silver Medal for Historical Fiction (Independent Publisher Book Awards). 10/10ths is her second novel. In addition to writing novels, Suzy Witten is a public affairs media relations specialist and spokesperson for the U. S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the aftermath of natural disasters.