Susan J. Hudson is a longtime journalist who now does communications for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A proud mom of two great adult daughters, she's an emerging fiction writer. This story, "Kidney Stones," was named a semifinalist in the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and is her first to be published. An excerpt of her novella "The Year Coffee Was Illegal" appeared on The Write Launch website. She is currently working on "Flintlocks at Dawn," a historical novel set in colonial Virginia on the cusp of the American Revolution.
