Susan Blauner, MSW, is a native of White Plains, New York. Go Yankees! She is a multi-disciplinary studio artist, creative writing teacher, and an internationally-recognized mental health and suicide prevention advocate. Susan lives with several mental health diagnoses and is also a breast cancer survivor—diagnosed at the age of forty-three. Susan lives in western Massachusetts with her Chorkie, Elaine/Lainey, where she writes, teaches, volunteers, takes pictures of odd things on the ground, builds gardens, and works in her studio. In the fall of 2021, she and her previous dog, Fiona, spent nine weeks driving ten thousand miles across eighteen states to camp on the The Grand Canyon's South Rim. Susan's now planning a new road trip with Lainey as her sidekick.

Susan has Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Bridgewater State University and a Master of Social Work degree from Simmons University—earned at the age of fifty.

Susan is now writing How I Gave Birth to My Mother with Pictures, Words, Art, and Mementos and envisions another memoir in the not-too-distant future entitled Happy for the Rest of My Life: The Art of Being Enough.