About me

Susie Fisher grew up in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania, and was born and raised in an Amish community. Her experience being raised in a sheltered environment saw her face many challenges, the hardest being the inability to enjoy some of life's simplest joys, like wearing pretty shoes, even as a little girl. Having lived a life ruled by conformity and fear, she finally left her community at the age of 20 in pursuit of freedom.

Abruptly without any semblance of a support system after losing everybody and everything she had known growing up in her community, she overcame the challenge of facing a world she’s never known. After attending college, she entered the corporate workforce. While she could now enjoy the basic pleasures of life she felt she missed out on as a young girl, Susie found herself slightly at odds with the world outside. Granted, she gained a newfound sense of freedom. Still, Corporate America also came with an ironic sense of familiarity with growing up in an environment ruled by conformity and fear. In the Amish community, you are shunned if you don’t follow its way of life. In Corporate America, failing to do well at one’s job will, similarly, see you fired.

Susie’s unique experiences inspired her to pen a memoir of her life, a children’s book, and her latest work, a novel by the name of The Last Medici Heiress.  While her novel is a thriller, it takes inspiration from her lived experiences in the Amish community and moving into the world outside. The main character also works in a corporate environment, and the novel draws parallels between the strict community she grew up in and Corporate America. While the two are drastically different, the similarities between the two cultures add an element of humor to her work, with truths many people can relate to.

The work also comments on her desire for people to find their own path and live their own truths that are defined by their own journeys as opposed to what society, religion, family, or other external sources define for a person.