Susan Hood

Susan Hood is the award-winning author of many books for young readers, including ADA’S VIOLIN; ALIAS ANNA; HARBORING HOPE; THE LAST STRAW: Kids vs. Plastics; LIFEBOAT 12; SHAKING THINGS UP: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World; TITAN AND THE WILD BOARS: The True Cave Rescue of the Thai Soccer Team; and WE ARE ONE: How the World Adds Up. Susan is the recipient of the E.B. White Honor Award, two Christopher Awards, the Américas Award, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and the Bank Street Flora Stieglitz Straus Award, given to “a distinguished work of nonfiction that serves as an inspiration to young people.” ALIAS ANNA was named a 2023 Sydney Taylor Notable Book and was a finalist for the 2023 National Jewish Book Awards.

Before launching a full-time writing career, Susan worked as an editor and freelance writer for kids, parents, and teachers. She spent many happy years as the Children’s Content Director of Nick Jr. Magazine, working with the superstars of kidlit—Eric Carle, Andrea Davis, Pinkney, John Scieszka, Maurice Sendak, Melissa Sweet, Rosemary Wells, and more—to create original stories for the magazine. Before that, Susan was a children’s book editor at Sesame Workshop, and a children’s magazine editor at Scholastic and Instructor Magazine for early childhood educators.

On weekends, Susan honed her craft as a freelance author. She wrote board books, concept books, nonfiction, and beginning readers for kids ages 1-8, publishing with Disney, Fisher Price, Penguin Putnam, Scholastic, Sesame Workshop, and Simon & Schuster, among others. She wrote for parents and early childhood educators in The New York Times, Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect, Sesame Street Parent’s Guide, Working Mother, and more.

Susan lives with her family and five-year-old pup in Connecticut and enjoys spending her summers on the water—swimming, kayaking, and sailing with her husband along the New England coast. Visit Susan at susanhoodbooks.com

Interviews

With Mr. Schu on Watch. Connect. Read. Click here, here, here, and here.

With Matthew Winner on All the Wonders, click here. 

With Dylan Teut on Mile High Reading, click here. 

With Alyson Beecher on Kid Lit Frenzy, click here. 

With James Preller on Five Questions, click here.   

With NJ SCBWI's Kathy Temean on Writing and Illustrating, click here.

With Stacey Shubitz on Two Writing Teachers, click here.

For even more information, check the About Me and FAQs pages.

Please feel free to contact Susan here.