Suzanne Mattaboni is a Pushcart-nominated fiction writer, blogger, essayist, corporate PR consultant, and a member of the Newsweek Expert Forum. A former community service reporter for Newsday, her work has been published in Seventeen, The Huffington Post, Mysterious Ways, Guideposts.com, 50 Word Stories, Dark Dossier, Motherwell, Turtle, The Best of LA Parent, & SixWordMemoirs.com. Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in anthologies including the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Scars, Howard Jones - We're In This Together, the Hard Boiled and Loaded with Sin noir anthology, Pizza Parties and Poltergeists, Little Demon Digest, Running Wild Anthology of Stories, What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Relationship Like This? and 2017 Stories Through the Ages; plus a story pending in the Ever After mythological creatures anthology. She was the editor of the Writes of Passage GLVWG 2021 anthology, which debuted at #17 on Amazon's top-selling anthologies list. One of her short stories was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was recently named a Woman of Influence by Lehigh Valley Business magazine. Suzanne has two talented children, one hysterically fun husband, and one ever-ravenous cat.