Susan Scarlata has lived and taught writing in Hong Kong, Denver, San Francisco and Wyoming. In Hong Kong she was a Professor at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and she currently teaches in Chatham University's Low Residency MFA program. 

Scarlata is the Editor and Publisher of the independent literary press Lost Roads, which runs the Besmilr Brigham Award for Women Writers.  Scarlata's recent work can be found in the Van-Gogh Gogh Anthology, on the PEN America website, and here about the visual art show These Things Are Tired.