Susan Springer grew up in a fishing village on the coast of Maine. She attended college in Maine and Vermont, and worked in Utah and Maine before moving to Alaska in 1985 where she developed the series, The Misadventures of Seldovia Sam. Her previous publications include Seldovia, Alaska: An Historical Portrait of Life in Herring Bay (Blue Willow, Ind. 1997). And an environmental education color book commission in 1995 by Alyeska Pipeline Co. Her text and interactive pen pal program featuring Alaska schools, titled Alaska...Pure Poetry, is part of Alyeska's environmental education program and was selected by the Smithsonian Museum gift shop to complement the Alaska Pipeline exhibit.  A portion of the author's proceeds from The Misadventures of Seldovia Sam have been earmarked for the Alaska Children's Trust.