Suzanne Snider is a Brooklyn-based writer whose work has been published in The Guardian, The Believer, The Washington Post, Tokion, Legal Affairs, Columbia, the Oklahoma Review, and several artists' catalogues. After receiving an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University in 2003, she pseudonymously published a book with Grove Press, in 2004 (reprinted by Random House Japan 2005).

She has worked as an oral historian and interviewer for the New York Academy of Medicine, HBO Productions, The Guardian, Columbia University's Oral History Research Office, the Newtown Creek Health and Harms Narrative Project, WGXC Community Radio, and the Judd Foundation.

Her work has been supported through fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Radcliffe Institute/Schlesinger Library, and the UCross Foundation Center. She teaches nonfiction/documentary at the New School University, and is completing a book about a divided commune.