Susan Strauss is a professional storyteller, internationally known for her performances on natural history themes and for her signature workshop, “The Passionate Fact: Storytelling Science.” She has written original narratives for Monterey Bay Aquarium, a National Forest Service salmon watershed restoration project, and a National Park Service film on the wolf in mythology used in Yellowstone National Park. She lives in Bend, Oregon.

Strauss began as a storyteller of Native American Coyote Stories. Her storytellings grew from friendships with Native elders, anthropological texts, and her love of America’s native wild dog. She discovered that the miraculous stories we call natural science found an echo in the beautiful, mythic pictures in worldwide indigenous stories.

Internationally recognized as a storyteller of natural history themes, she combines mythic/traditional story from many cultures with personal anecdote and scientific information. Through her “Passionate Fact Storytelling Science Workshop,” books, recordings and performances, she seeks to help each of us discover the Renaissance ideal of the scientist who is equally a philosopher and a poet — at once scientific and spiritually wise.