Susan Kim writes plays, graphic novels, screenplays, YA fiction, and nonfiction, as well as documentaries and teleplays for children's television. Her graphic novel, Brain Camp (cowritten with husband Laurence Klavan) was a Junior Library Guild Selection, a Scholastic Book Fair Selection, one of 2010's Top Ten Great Graphic Novel for Teens by the American Library Association, and is scheduled to be republished as a mass market paperback in 2015. Their graphic novel City of Spies was chosen for the Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List by the Texas Library Association, Scripps Howard News Service's Favorite Books of 2010, and Comic Book Resources' Favorite Books of 2010. She also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary for Paving the Way, the Drama League of New York Award for Outstanding New Play for Open Spaces, and has been nominated for national Emmy Award five times and the Writers Guild of America award three times. She lives in New York City.