Suzanne LaFleur grew up outside Boston in Newton and later Natick, MA. During the school year, she attended Catholic school, did a lot of homework, and read a couple of books a week. During the summer, she read a couple of books a day and spent hours swimming and playing outside at her local pool or beach. She was very much a planner, dreamer, and writer, creating plays and shows for her siblings and the neighborhood kids to be in, and filling up entire notebooks with novels. She always read late into the night and slept with a book under her pillow.

She went to college in Lexington, VA, at Washington and Lee University, where she studied English and European History. She pursued her graduate studies in New York City at The New School, focusing on Writing for Children. Suzanne now divides her time between writing and other endeavors.