Colleen Hitchcock is the world-renowned author of the poem, Ascension. Her masterpiece poem is featured on thousands of websites, and in the forward’s of best-selling author, Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse and Executive Orders.

Colleen recently co-authored Inside the Cheater’s Mind:  Why He Cheats & Why She Cheats with Dr. Denise Wood.  Her first suspense novel, Rabbit Heart, was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2006. Other suspense novels and a short story collection will follow shortly.

She has penned several screenplays in suspense and romantic comedy genre including Shakespeare in L.A. and 99% True. She has written the play and composed music for a musical. She has written numerous songs and poems, a collection of short stories, a collection of ethical stories for grades 4-6 and other children’s songs and books.

She is in her tenth year of as a Judge for the Benjamin Franklin Book Awards in Design and Literary categories.  She most enjoys helping young authors as a book coach or working with clients as a ghostwriter.

In her business life she has been a teacher, a bartender, a flight attendant, a plane charter operator, a stockbroker, a sales manager for a Fortune 100 company, a regional manager for a Boston management consulting company, and the CEO of her own publishing company.

Recognized as a poet as early as her first grade, she feels that her poetic roots have sculpted a rhythmic beat that moves throughout her prose. Hitchcock has always been drawn to comedy, action, and suspense, for its passion. And she artfully weaves stories and morals throughout every story, poem, or song she writes.

Colleen was born in Minneapolis, MN; has lived in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Santa Monica, California; and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona with her dancing pomeranian, Nikki.