Susann Cokal was born in California and has lived most of her life there and in the Southwest, where she found much of the material for her novel BREATH AND BONES. She also studied medieval history, art history, and literature in Poitiers, France, the inspiration for Mirabilis. She has taught at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo and now lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary narrative at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Books by Susann Cokal

Breath and Bones

by Susann Cokal

When a second-rate painter named Albert Castle takes his eight-foot masterpiece and leaves his model behind, Famke sets out over the Atlantic, convinced that she is his muse. Susann Cokal blends pre-Raphaelite painting, American brothels, Utahan polygamists, a bit of cross-dressing, a dynamite-wielding labor movement, one California millionaire, and the invention of electircal sexual stimulation (as treatment for consumption) into a comic novel that gallops across the American West.