Susan Scutti is an American fiction writer, poet and journalist currently writing on medical issues for Newsweek,[1] CNN[2] CBS Philly[3] and Medical Daily.[4]
Scutti obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University She then went on to earn a master's degree in American studies from CUNY.[5] As a poet she has published a volume of verse The Commute (Paper Kite Press 2011) and had her poems included in several anthologies, such as Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café (Holt Paperbacks 1994).[6] and The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth Press 1999),[7] among others.
As a writer of fiction she has published a book of short stories; The Renaissance Began with a Muted Shade of Green (Linear Arts 1999-)) and three novels, beginning with A kind of Sleep in 2004, Second Generation in in 2008, both independently, and The Deceptive Smiles of Bredmeyer Deed (2011– available as a digital download from Raven Rock Press). A core member of the rag tag literary collective "the Unbearables", Scutti has works in several of their collections.