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

She has published articles in The New York Times, 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. Her photography has accompanied many of her published news stories.  She has also had essays published in The New York Times and The Parent Paper.

Susan’s Coney Island photography was featured in a solo October 2008 exhibit at the Swartley Arts Center of the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, N.J., and she has an upcoming March 2010 solo exhibit of her Africa images at the Englewood (N.J.) Public Library.  Many of her Coney Island and Africa works are available through Frame It Yourself of Westwood, N.J. 

One of her images, Hungry, Hurried, Broke for Obama is on display for the month of October 2009 in the “Art & Icons:  Michelle & Barack” exhibit at the J. Lucas Gallery in Provincetown, Mass. 

Most recently, Sheltering Arms Community Pool was chosen to be displayed at the Putnam Arts Council’s 47th Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibit in Brewster, New York.

Susan graduated with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2008, with distinction from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1991 and cum laude from Williams College in 1980. She lives in the New York metropolitan area, but grew up in Rhode Island. She and her husband, Dwight, have five children.