SUSANNA SPACE

Susanna Space is a writer, journalist, editor and communications and brand consultant. Her journalism and essays have been published at Guernica, Longreads, Searchlight New Mexico, Source New Mexico, The Rumpus, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere.

As a journalist, Susanna has covered education, the opioid crisis, politics, animal rights, meteor events, and more. Her essays have been shortlisted for several prizes and she has received support from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, which provides grants to feminist women in the arts.

A longtime communications consultant to businesses and nonprofits, Susanna is publicity director with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival. She also works as a freelance writer, editor, and publicist.

On June 30, 1908, a star-like body with a fiery tail tore through the clear morning sky above the vast Siberian forest. As it neared the ground, a column of light shot twelve miles into the air. Booms like artillery followed, and stones rained from the sky; houses shook and windows shattered. A wave of intense heat threw people from their chairs. Hundreds of reindeer scattered and burned.

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