Susan M. Sipprelle is a writer and photojournalist, as well as a wife and mother.

She has published articles in many of the Manhattan Media community newspapers, as well as in Autism Advocate and WoodenBoat magazines, The Gotham Gazette (an online New York City paper), news-press.com (which covers Southwest Florida) and in several of the North Jersey Media Group publications. She has also had essays published in The New York Times and The Parent Paper.

She graduated with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008. She lives in the New York metropolitan area, but grew up in Rhode Island. She and her husband, Dwight, have five children.