Susan K Perry Ph.D.

About

Susan K. Perry, Ph.D., is a writer, novelist, and social psychologist. She interviewed more than 75 best-selling and award-winning novelists and poets, and the resulting book was the Los Angeles Times-bestseller, Writing in Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity. (Famous flow researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi endorsed it.)

Her first novel, Kylie's Heel, is available as an ebook or paperback from HumanistPress.com and online booksellers.

In addition to contributing several chapters about creativity to edited volumes for university presses, she has written six popular nonfiction books. Among these are Loving in Flow: How the Happiest Couples Get and Stay That Way and Playing Smart. She has also written 1000+ articles, essays, reviews, and advice columns for publications such as Psychology Today, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Woman's World, and she has been quoted widely in national media.

Most recently, she has focused on the psychological and creative aspects of rationality, freethought, atheism, and humanism.

To learn more about her books (or buy discounted signed copies), visit her site BunnyApe.com.

Books by Susan K Perry Ph.D.

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