JOURNEY OF A GHOST WRITER

SUSAN MATLUCK WESTPHAL GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY AND NOW LIVES IN WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT. SUE GRADUATED CUM LAUDE FROM TUFTS UNIVERSITY. SHE SUBSEQUENTLY OBTAINED HER LAW DEGREE FROM THE NATIONAL LAW CENTER AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY. AS A LAWYER FOR MORE THEN 15 YEARS, SUE WAS WELL VERSED IN THE IMPORTANCE OF GREAT WRITING AND PUBLIC SPEAKING. HER LEGAL PRACTICE AS A TRIAL ATTORNEY — PERFORMING JURY AND NON-JURY TRIALS, AS WELL AS HEARINGS AND MOTIONS IN COURT AND BEFORE ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNALS — REINFORCED THESE INVALUABLE SKILLS. HER LAST LEGAL ASSOCIATION WAS WITH THE NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL LAW FIRM OF EPSTEIN BECKER & GREEN, P.C.

SINCE COLLEGE, SUE HAS BEEN WRITING NUMEROUS SPEECHES, TOASTS, EULOGIES AND POEMS. THESE WRITINGS WERE NOT FOREIGN TO HER, SINCE HER MOTHER WAS AN EDITOR AND WRITER. IN FACT, HER MOTHER PUT A POEM IN HER AND HER BROTHERS' LUNCH BOXES EVERY DAY FOR AS MANY YEARS AS SHE CAN REMEMBER. THAT IS HOW SUE'S LOVE OF POEM WRITING BEGAN. SHE NOW PLACES POEMS IN HER KIDS' LUNCHES AS WELL.

FOR YEARS SUE HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR HER POEMS THAT ARE UNIQUE AND SPECIFIC TO THE PERSONS INVOLVED—THE SPEAKER AND THE RECIPIENT. THEY TELL INTIMATE STORIES OF THE RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONALITIES AND MOMENTS FOR WHICH THEY ARE INTENDED. THEY HAVE HUMOR, WARMTH AND A CLEVERNESS THAT MAKES THE SPEAKER SEEM AT EASE AND THE AUDIENCE ENGAGED. SUE'S CLIENTS RANGE GEOGRAPHICALLY FROM VIRGINIA, WASHINGTON D.C., NEW YORK TO CONNECTICUT. THE BEAUTY OF SUE'S WORK HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM MANY, SINCE SHE KEEPS HER SECRET AS A GHOST WRITER AND ALLOWS EACH CLIENT TO RECEIVE THE PRAISE FOR HER WORK AS IF IT WERE HIS OR HER OWN. NOW, SOME CLIENTS HAVE AGREED TO SHARE SUE'S WORK WITH THE PUBLIC.