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Susan MacLeod is an artist writing and drawing about long-term care in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Her humorous book, “Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care” was released in October 2021 by Conundrum Press and follows her nine-year journey shepherding her mother through a callous system while dealing with an indifferent sibling. The book was given an “Outstanding in its Genre” review by the American Library Association publication, “Booklist”.
She atones for once being the government spokesperson defending the very system she experienced as brutally cold and non-communicative. Her illustrations have been published by Kaiser Permanente, Halifax Magazine, Lion’s Roar Magazine, Maisonneuve, The Fold, and The Globe and Mail.
Her professional communications career included more than ten years in the healthcare system. She is a freelance graphic recorder, illustrator, and also belongs to a group of artists exploring how to visualize end of life issues: www.veoli.net
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction, University of King’s College, both in Halifax, and a BA from Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada. Follow her work on Instagram, Susan MacLeod Studio. www.susanmacleod.ca
Susan will take her residency at Can Serrat in November 2024.