Susan Kim is a five-time Emmy nominee for her work in children's television and a Writers Guild Award winner for best documentary. She wrote the stage adaptation of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, teaches writing at Goddard College, and blogs for the Huffington Post. With Laurence Klavan she wrote the graphic novels City of Spies and Brain Camp. When she was growing up there was a chain-link fence behind her family's apartment that led to a small woods. After dinner all the kids would sneak through to play in a world where there were no adult intruders. The memory of that has always stayed with her.
