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Susan Richards is a writing instructor and former professional in the mental health field who worked for fifteen years as a psychotherapist at a private mental health clinic. She is also a lifelong animal lover, and in her debut book, Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir, she describes how her life was changed and enriched through her relationship with.

Part travelogue, part contemporary history,

Susan richardson Susan Richards has a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and a master's degree in social work from Adelphi University. She lives with her husband Dennis Stock and their beloved gang of four dogs and one Siamese cat. She is the author of the best-selling memoir Chosen by a Horse. Visit her site,

Biography. SUSAN RICHARDS has Chosen by a Horse, Susan’s first memoir, was published in , and I believe I picked it up at my local Barnes & Noble shortly thereafter. In this book, we meet Lay Me Down, a rescue mare and retired Standardbred racer.

Part travelogue, part contemporary history, Susan Richards. Susan Richards has a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and a master's in social work from Adelphi University. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Chosen by a Horse, a Book Sense pick, and Chosen Forever. Susan lives with her husband, Dennis Stock, and their beloved gang of four dogs and one.

Susan Richards Shreve is Susan Richards' "Saddled" is about more than horse ownership. It's about love, addiction and recovery as well. Richards writes honestly about the abusive relationships she endured and about her alcoholism. Until she meets a Morgan mare named Georgia, Richards spends all of her time drinking.

SUSAN RICHARDS has a Susan Richards lived a hard life. She lost her mother early on, was abandoned by her father, had an unhappy marriage and suffered from alcoholism. But instead of letting her life take control, she took control of her life and adopted a horse that changed everything.

Born 1939, in Toledo, Susan Richards is the author of Epics of Everyday Life, which won the PEN/Time Life Award for Non-Fiction and the Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award in She edits open Democracy Russia, part of open-Democracy, the site about global affairs, which she cofounded.

susan richards author biography in the background

I was a psychotherapist "Two kindred spirits find each other in this beautifully written memoir about the human-animal bond" (Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation).The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead Lay Me Down, a former racehorse, walked right up that ramp and into Susan's life.