THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE won a Gold Book Award from Literary Titan and was shortlisted for The Santa Fe Writing Project's 2023 Literary Awards Program. The novel reached the Scouting Programme at Cornerstones Literary Consultancy in London. Susan Knecht's narrative non-fiction was published in the Write On Mamas Anthology, and her short story THE HIJAB in THE GOOD REVIEW literary journal. She completed the two-year Online Novel Writing Certificate Program at Stanford University. Formerly a practicing psychotherapist in Northern California, Susan Knecht currently has a private therapy practice in Amsterdam. As a second-generation Holocaust survivor, she is keenly aware of the issues of exile, loss and the psychological devastation caused by being ‘othered.’ THE ART COLLECTOR'S WIFE is her first novel.