Sutton Sloane grew up in northern New Jersey and spent more than twenty years working in public relations in Manhattan, where she learned a few things about people: everyone has a story, almost everyone edits theirs, and the most interesting parts are usually the ones they leave out.
These days, she lives in the Southern United States, where life moves at a slightly different pace—but people remain every bit as complicated.
Sutton writes contemporary fiction about women who have lived long enough to know the rules and have finally started questioning who wrote the damn things. Her work explores desire, intimacy, friendship, marriage, reinvention, aging, and those uncomfortable moments when the life you've built no longer quite fits the person you've become.
She is particularly interested in women at the point in life when they're often expected to become quieter, more sensible, and considerably less interesting.