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about the authors
Susan Ogden Benting
Susan Ogden Benting – American author and storyteller with a deep love for words and wonder. Her lyrical voice reveals the beauty hidden in ordinary moments and the power of kindness across generations.
Susan Ogden Benting grew up picking and chopping cotton, irrigating cotton and alfalfa fields, riding horses, and working cattle on a farm and ranch in New Mexico, USA. By the age of 19, she had traveled around the world alone, living with residents of each country she visited, following a year as a Rotary Exchange student in Australia.
Takezo Art
Takezo Art (Constantin Mircea Roșu) – Romanian engineer, painter, and poet, whose imagination bridges art and science. His creative universe blends symbolism, compassion, and the search for truth. Through his collaboration with Susan Ogden Benting, he brings to life stories that celebrate courage, renewal, and the quiet strength of light.
Takezo Art’s real name is Constantin Mircea Roșu, a Romanian writer, engineer, painter, and musician. He writes under the name of his painting business, Takezo Art. Constantly moving between logic and wonder, his background is in engineering, but his heart belongs to stories, colors, sounds, and the silence that surrounds them all. Constantin writes
Winners of 2 International Pegasus Literary Competition Awards
https://takezoart.com
authors' quote
“In stories, we find not answers, but the courage to wonder, reflect, and see the world a little differently.”
