Author | Investigative Writer
Warrior for Upstarts and Underdogs
Susan Berardi is an award-winning writer known for her captivating nonfiction that reads like a novel. Her books and articles delve into gripping tales of bravery and grit, where the ordinary become extraordinary, and the bullied and oppressed don't fight for their own happy endings; they fight to say, "I'm the last person you will hurt."
As the 2024 National Book Pipeline Winner in Unpublished Nonfiction, Susan's upcoming books promise to enthrall readers with her powerful narratives and thought-provoking themes. The stories are yours. She just puts them on the page.
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Coming March 2027 from Plainspoken Books:
Stolen Sons: Police Violence, A Broken System, and Two Mothers' Journey from Grief to Justice
Available in hardcover and as an ebook.
"Stolen Sons is a devastating and necessary reckoning with what happens when the system protects itself instead of the people it was sworn to serve."
-Ernest Stevens, Emmy Award-winning documentary "Ernie and Joe: Crisis Cops"