ABOUT

HELLO! I’m Susan Uehara Rakstang and live in Chicago, IL with my husband, Bob, and our Cockapoo pup,Tony. Before getting into my pages of this COOKING FOR HER EYES website, I thought I’d first put my bio out there, so here goes!

I was born in Hawai`i to parents of Okinawan descent. My father moved to Chicago for his education in the trades and called my mother, brother, and me to join him when I was three years old.

I earned my undergraduate degree in Art Education with a minor in Ceramics at Northern Illinois University and in the mid-1970s, began my studies for my Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois, Chicago. After practicing architecture for nearly twenty years, I sold my firm and spent a few years revisiting my love of making pottery and playing the piano. I then accepted a position as University Architect/Associate VP of Facilities at a university in Chicago’s southern suburbs, and after ten great years there, I retired. Over subsequent years, I fell in love with writing–and now I’m the author of COOKING FOR HER EYES! Click the book cover below to view the book trailer.