Suzy Vitello's award-winning short pieces have appeared in AARP, The Rumpus, The Southampton Review, Mississippi Review, anthologies and other literary journals, and has been a recipient of an Oregon Literary Arts fellowship. Her latest novel, BITTERROOT, was published by Sibylline Press in May, 2024 and has been called "an exceptional novel by a great talent," by novelist Rene Denfeld; and she is also the author of FAULTLAND from Ooligan Press in March, 2021, a Powell's Pick of the Month. Her YA novels include THE MOMENT BEFORE, THE EMPRESS CHRONICLES, and THE KEEPSAKE. She holds an MFA from Antioch Los Angeles, and works as a freelance developmental editor and book coach.