Susan Tiberghien, an American writer living in Geneva, Switzerland, holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at Grenoble University, France and the CG Jung Institute, Kusnacht, Switzerland. She has published four memoirs: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, Invitation to Silent Prayer; Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story; Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman, and two writing handbooks: One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft; and most recently Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by CG Jung, along with numerous essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Tiberghien has been teaching Jungian informed writing workshops for over twenty-five years at CG Jung Societies, at the International Women's Writing Guild, and at writers' centers and conferences in the States and in Europe. Recently she has recorded courses for the Jung Society of Washington DC, for Soul at Play, and for the Jung Platform. She is an active member of International Pen, a founding member of the International Writers' Residence at Lavigny, Switzerland, the founder and past director of the Geneva Writers' Group, an association of over 240 English-language writers. Mother of six children, grandmother of fifteen grandchildren, and greatgrandmother of three great grandchildren, she lives with her French husband in Geneva, Switzerland, a city whose dedication to peace and justice she fully endorses.
