Sue Speck

Sue Speck is an award-winning journalist and a gifted storyteller.

Sue wrote and edited national news for a news wire service in Chicago and was a television reporter in Houston, where she covered many high-profile crimes and trials. But she found a murder story equally as compelling in her native South Dakota in the tiny cemetery where her family has visited the graves of family members for decades. "The Lonely Grave: How a Homestead Murder Brought Closure 100 Years Later" weaves history into a riveting narrative and brings it into modernity, examining the effects on the community and finding the victim's family, who had never known what happened to their great grandmother.

Sue also has a connection with her first book. The creator of one of America's premier sculpture parks is from her hometown and she turned the story of the small town, self-taught sculptor into a beautiful and inspiring book in "The Power of the Bull: Inside the Head of Sculptor Wayne Porter." An artist herself, Sue used her insight to write an art biography that is fascinating and visually captivating. "The Power of the Bull" is filled with 50 of her artful photographs of Porter Sculpture Park.