Susan Wood

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Susan Wood is a writer and fanzine editor.

Susan Wood was introduced to sf fandom and fanzines by Richard Labonte while attending Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario in the 1960s. After moving to Toronto later in the decade, she began to attend meetings of the Ontario Science Fiction Club, formed in 1966 and hosted by 'Capt'n George' Henderson at his nostalgia store Memory Lane, then at his comic art Whizzband Gallery next door, then other locations.

She met Mile Glicksohn in 1969 and were married, and soon after she began at first writing for and then co-editing Energumen, for which they won the Hugo Award for 'Best Fanzine'.

At the same time Susan was also publishing her own zine Aspiditro.

In 1973 she won the Hugo Award for 'Best Fan Writer'.