Susan Jones is a West Virginia public schoolteacher who teaches at John Marshall High School in Glen Dale, West Virginia. Her course load includes American History, Sociology, and Appalachian Culture.Also a Christian songwriter, she has over 150 songs in her catalog, which include a Top 40 song in the southern gospel genre, If It Wasn't for the Cross, cowritten with Tery Wilkins.Her interest in genealogy has led to the writing of several family history books and a local church history. Rounding out her writing is a set of ten music theory books used for teaching at summer music schools.She was born in Glen Dale, West Virginia, and lives in Moundsville, West Virginia, with her husband of twenty-four years, retired John Marshall High School teacher Bill Jones.