Suanne Laqueur

Suanne Laquer is a former teacher and professional dancer turned author of contemporary fiction novels. Her novels have been described as contemporary train wrecks, emotionally intelligent romances, and therapy fiction. An “Exaltation of Larks” the first novel of the “Venery” series was the winner of the Writers’ Digest Grand Prize in 2017 and the North Street Book Prize in 2019. Her debut novel was “The Man I Love” that was published in 2014 and went on to win the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards gold medal and the Feathered Quill Book Awards as a Best Debut. She also won the gold medal at the 2016 RFBA for the novel “Give Me Your Answer True.” Laquer has a degree in theater and dance from Alfred University and after graduation, she was for a time a teacher in Croton-on-Hudson’s Carol Bierman School of Ballet Arts. She is an avid gardener, cook, and reader and also a blogger at EatsReadsThinks. She currently lives with her husband and children in Westchester County, New York.