Sue Griffith Smith has written freelance for local publications, educational journals, and newsletters since earning her undergraduate degree in journalism from Indiana University in Bloomington. Sacrifice, her debut novel, was written while completing her graduate degree in creative writing at Antioch University - Midwest, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Though her family is from Eastern Kentucky, she is a lifetime resident of Indiana. She lives in a log house in the woods with her husband, daughter, and black lab, Maddie.