Susan Denman is a physician who grew up on a dairy farm in the Catskill mountains. When she was a college student she spent one summer working at a rural hospital near her home. Her experience there as a nurse's aide inspired "Liberty Loomis", her _ rst novel. It is a coming of age story about a naïve young woman who comes face to face with a clash of cultures, crippling illnesses, domestic violence and death. The summer at Liberty Loomis Hospital triggers her recollection of a long suppressed painful childhood memory. Its haunting damage reaches far beyond her family and her insular world. Dr. Denman currently lives with her family near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
