Susan McNabb is an American newspaper columnist and author. She was raised in Asheville, North Carolina, has an English Literature degree from the University of Tennessee, and lived and worked as a Los Angeles model and commercial actor for nearly three decades before returning to North Carolina and settling in the small town of Tryon with her husband and rescued dogs. Susan writes Tryon Diary, a weekly observational column in the Tryon Daily Bulletin, "The World's Smallest Daily Newspaper," has published a collection of her columns by the same name, and writes romantic fiction under the name