Sue Regan Gregson – Writer, Editor, Author
This website is a work in progress. Stay tuned for excerpts from my memoir (working title: The Bad Patient). For information on my business writing, visit www.inkspiration.com or email me at sue@inkspiration.com.
I started writing in second grade. The first story I recall was a cringey knock-off of The Little Drummer Boy. It didn’t stop me. My 7th grade English teacher Miss Cleary convinced me that I. Could BE a writer. Mrs. McDowell, my 8th grade English teacher agreed, even after wading through some dismal poetry (my poetry remains dismal).
Since then I’ve written marketing materials, news releases, legal and medical curricula, speeches for governors and a president, and more than a dozen nonfiction books for grades K-6, mostly historical biographies. I’ve also written a handful of high-low books for high schoolers and ESL students on medical topics and a series of more than 50 math workbooks to accompany Harcourt texts for grades K-6.
I’m currently researching a story about a young New Yorker named Rosetta Wakeman who enlisted as a Union soldier during the American Civil War. Rosetta guarded Washington DC and fought in Louisiana, where she died and was buried as Private Lyons Wakeman. I hope to write a middle-grader narrative nonfiction book about Rosetta based in part on the letters she wrote home to family. I like to get lost in my research.
When I’m not writing or editing, you will find me tooling around recklessly in my outdoor and indoor wheelchairs or studying American Sign Language (I’ve been deaf since I was a tween and read lips). You can reach out to me at sue@sueregangregson.com.