Suzanne Y. Snow was born in Rochester, N.Y. She received her B.S. in Physics at SUNY Brockport in 1984 and her M.S. Ed in Secondary Education: Physics and Mathematics in 1994.

She has worked as an educator, engineer, science technician and configuration analyst. Her interest in science fiction started very early on with television shows like Outer Limits, Star Trek and Dr. Who, reading comic books and watching her father work on electronics projects in the basement. Later on she began to write science fiction stories throughout middle school, high school, and college as a form of self expression. The idea for her first novel was developed while she was working as a winterover science technician at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station, Antarctica, in 1990-91. Suzanne presently enjoys writing, gardening, and studying Iaido.

Biography provided by the author, August 2003.