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 ISBN 0-9831606-0-0) 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- ISBN 1-891219-65-0)) and three novels, beginning with A kind of Sleep in 2004 ( ISBN 0595335993), Second Generation in ( ISBN 0595268803) 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.