Susan's love for Science Fiction and Fantasy began when her fourth grade teacher read Madeleine L'Engles' A Wrinkle In Time to the class. She attended her first Star Trek convention at the age of 14. Since then she's continued to read voraciously and has attended numerous local and World Science Fiction conventions. Her first major urban fantasy series is the Midgard series, beginning with Mist, a July 2013 release from Tor Books.
Susan and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband Serge Mailloux whom she met because of a mutual love of the works of writer C. J. Cherryh dogs Cagney, Nahla and Freya, and cats Agatha and Rocky.