When she was six years old, Susan Annah Currie spent fifteen months as a patient in the Preventorium Hospital in Magee, Mississippi, where children were allowed visits from parents only twice a month, and adhered to a strict daily routine, called “the Fresh Air Method”.
Susan is a native Mississippian, born in Jackson in 1953. She obtained a B.A. in English from Belhaven College, and attended graduate school for English Literature at the University of Mississippi. In 1979, she moved to Ithaca, New York, and obtained a Masters in Library Science from the University of Buffalo. She was an academic librarian for close to thirty years, including Cornell University and SUNY Binghamton University Libraries. In 2009, she was chosen to be the direc
