Meet Susan Perloff

Susan Perloff is a writer. Stringing words together – finding the best way to convey the message – gives her pleasure. Since 1983 Susan has been a full-time e-lance writer, editor, writing trainer and writing coach.
 
Susan can write about anything – college admissions and auto emissions, cancer and careers, pharmaceuticals and farms, search engines and service businesses, chemicals and condominiums, mammography and metal detectors. She writes newsletters, annual reports, training manuals, profiles, brochures, corporate histories and more. Clients include blue-chip companies and small professional practices. She'll write whatever you need her to write, when you need it, for print or electronic media.

An extrovert in an introvert’s profession, Susan enjoys talking about writing, so she teaches writing to adults. In university extension classrooms, corporate boardrooms, nonprofit agencies and the Philadelphia Writers Group, she teaches and trains adults to improve their writing skills. She consults with individuals as a writing coach. She's equally capable of discussing metaphors, dangling modifiers and serial commas. She has trained employees of engineering firms, public relations firms, a graduate school of psychology, a soup company, two charitable foundations and a major museum of art.

She has trained executive staff, managers, workers, support staff and two CEOs. She has led private writing salons since 1995, teaching personal essays, advanced writing techniques and Grammar for Grownups.

Susan Perloff started writing in 10th grade because the guys she wanted to date were on the high-school newspaper. At the University of Pennsylvania, Susan integrated the formerly all-male Daily Pennsylvanian, an experience she considers the keystone of her education.

Susan writes lively, entertaining copy instead of tedious text, since she believes that engaged readers are attentive readers. Her journalistic credits include four national writing awards, 125 by-lines in the Philadelphia Inquirer and by-lines in more than 100 other periodicals. She wrote editions four, five and eight of Pennsylvania: Off the Beaten Path (Globe Pequot Press).

Susan's license plate says WRITES. Her business card says she is Your friend who WRITES in Pennsylvania.