Susan Norman is a writer, photographer, and registered nurse. She worked at Boston City Hospital, where For Crying Out Loud both opens and closes, and later at UCLA and in behavioral health as a regional nurse manager.

For over twenty-five years, she worked as a professional photographer in Los Angeles.

For Crying Out Loud is her first book.

My work explores memory, grief, and the quiet ways caregiving shapes a life. I write to preserve memory so that even in absence, presence endures on the page.