Introducing Susan Casey

Posted by Jason | Monday, September 12, 2005 at 1:41pm

Allow me to introduce our latest guest blogger: Susan Casey, who will be joining us starting on Monday, Sept. 12.

Susan is the development editor of Time Inc., the world's largest magazine publisher. She was previously the editor of Sports Illustrated Women and an editor-at-large for Time Inc.'s magazine titles. Under her editorship, Sports Illustrated Women was nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. She also served as the creative director of Outside magazine, which during her tenure won three consecutive, history-making National Magazine Awards for General Excellence. At Outside she was part of the editorial team that developed the stories behind the bestselling books "Into Thin Air," and "The Perfect Storm," as well as the movie "Blue Crush."

Her first book, "The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks" (published June 2005 by Henry Holt & Company) reached the New York Times bestseller list. It's about two biologists who uncover astounding facts about the great white sharks that come from the Pacific every fall and congregate in the Farallon Islands, a group of ragged, jagged rocks 30 miles west of San Francisco. The rocks are nicknamed The Devil's Teeth because of their ferocious appearance. The great whites gather there to feast on seals and sea lions, an alien spectacle of predator and prey in an inhospitable setting.

Here's a passage from her book:

The Farallon great whites are largely unharassed. They might cross paths with the occasional boatload of day-trippers from San Francisco, but they're subjected to none of the behavior-altering coercion that nature's top predators regularly endure so that people can sit in the Winnebago... and get a look at them. This is important because despite their visibility at the Farallones, and despite the impressive truth that sharks are so old they predate trees, great whites have remained among the most mysterious of creatures."

Here's a link to a interview with Susan Casey on Amazon.

A native of Toronto, Susan lives in New York City.

So please give a warm Oceana Network welcome to Susan Casey, everybody!

Categories: Miscellaneous, Staff

i am trying to reach Susan Casey

On April 22nd, 2008 Anonymous said:

Like the subject line states, i am trying to reach Ms. Casey. she was the editor of SI for women and i gave a subscription to my niece- i enjoyed reading it so much i eventually got a subscription for myself and it was there that i read about a bicycle race across africa.

i competed in the race and it changed my life. i am very thankful for that trip and would like to email thanks to her but can not seem to find an email adress for her. my name is david sylvester and i have gone on to do some very cool and interesting things and i doubt that any of it would have happened if i didn't read her magazine.

here is an article on what i am doing and if you have an email address i would appreciate it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/blackhistory2008/columns/story?id=3222671

thanks

Susan Casey's email?

On November 4th, 2008 jennigut said:

Hi Jason,

I'm just wondering if you had any luck finding Susan Casey's email address? I'm desperately trying to contact her but have had no luck. Please email me- I would be so grateful.

Thanks!

Jennifer
jennigut@hotmail.com

Susan's book

On February 17th, 2006 AmandaMcN said:

The Devil's Teeth, Susan Casey's book, is well worth picking up, but from there on out you are on your own. I could not put it down. This book is multi-dimensional. First it brings an account of shark study that few in the lay community have had access to. There's the history of the Farallons, radioactive waste dumping in the 80's, the astonishing range of behavior in visiting humans (magic shark repellant bracelets, anyone?), the equally astonishing efforts of the biologists who study sharks, birds and anything that moves, Susan's own immensely brave and scrappy committment. This book was written from the heart and that is evident from the first chapter. Id say this book has gone a long way in bringing public interest back to active preservation of sharks, awareness of marine ecology. Oh, did I mention it's really funny too?Thank you, Susan!