Susan DeFreitas is the author of the novel Hot Season (Harvard Square Editions), which won the 2017 Gold IPPY Award for Best Fiction of the West-Mountain region. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and in 2014 she was a finalist for a Best of the Net award. She holds an MFA from Pacific University and currently serves as collaborative editor with Indigo Editing and a book coach with Author Accelerator.