Most Recent: December 31, 1969
Susan Hayden is a poet, playwright, novelist & essayist. She’s been published in Los Angeles in the 1970s: Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine (Rare Bird Books), I Might Be The Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays From The Los Angeles Underground (Padua Playwrights Press), The Black Body (Seven Stories Press), Storie: All Write (Rome, Italy), Jewish Journal and elsewhere. Hayden is Creator/Producer of the monthly show Library Girl, presented at Ruskin Group Theatre and named “Best Local Literary Series – Editor’s Picks” (The Argonaut -Best of the Westside, 2019). In 2015, she was honored with the Bruria Finkel/Artist In The Community Award by Santa Monica Arts Commission for her “significant contributions to the energetic discourse within Santa Monica’s arts community.” Her proudest achievement: raising her son, singer-songwriter Mason Summit. She lives with her husband, writer Steve Hochman, in Sunset Park, Santa Monica. Steve Hochman has covered popular, and unpopular, music for more than 33 1/3 years, these days for the web publication The Bluegrass Situation and the New Orleans’ monthly OffBeat. He’s best-known for his 22+ years with the Los Angeles Times, as well as long stints as music critic for two popular radio shows: Pasadena station KPCC’s Take Two and San Francisco-based KQED’s The California Report. He’s also had hundreds of bylines in Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzBandsLA and others. In recent years he’s savored the new challenges and inspiration given him by his wife Susan Hayden of writing with a more personal, poetic approach for her illuminating literary series Library Girl.