Biography
Susan Tiberghien is an American-born writer living in Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a BA in Literature and Philosophy (Phi Beta Kappa) and did graduate work at the Université de Grenoble and the CG Jung Institute of Zurich.
She has published four memoirs, Looking for Gold, One Year in Jungian Analysis (Daimon Verlag, 1997, Circling to the Center, A Woman’s Encounter with Silent Prayer Paulist Press, 2001),
Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story and Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman (both Red Lotus Studio Press, 2015) and two writing books, One Year to a Writing Life (Da Capo Press, 2007) and recently, Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by C.G. Jung (Chiron Publications 2018), along with numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Most recently she wrote a fifth memoir, Seasons of Love, A Lasting Marriage (Chiron Publications 2024). Several of her titles have been translated and published in Swedish, Italian, Korean, and French. Chiron Publications published the 25th Anniversary Edition Circling to the Center, Invitation to Silent Prayer with an Afterword by the Author.
Tiberghien teaches and lectures at graduate programs, at C.G. Jung Centers, and at writers’ conferences both in the States and in Europe. She has taught at the International Women's Writing Guild conferences and workshops since 1990 annually, and occasionally at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center, the Bethesda Writers' Center, Grub Street Boston and the Muse and the Marketplace. Recently she has recorded courses for the CG Jung Center of Washington DC, the Jung Platform, and SoulAtPlay.
She founded the Geneva Writers' Group in 1993 which she directed for 25 years and where she continues to give workshops. The GWG brings together over 200 English language writers for workshops, conferences and readings. She is the founding editor of their literary review, Offshoots, Writing from Geneva.
In Paris, she has taught at the Paris Writers Workshop, given workshops at Shakespeare and Company, Village Voice and the American Library. She has also given workshops in Brussels, Luxembourg, Basel, and Bern.
Tiberghien is a founding member of the International Writers' Residence at the Château de Lavigny, where each summer thirty writers from around the world are welcomed for three week sessions.
She is married, with six grown children, fifteen grandchildren, and three great grandchildren, and a wonderful French husband.