In 1999, she co-wrote "The Skinny: What Every Skinny Woman Knows About Dieting (And Won't Tell You!)" under her married name, Susan Sistrom. Her previously published magazine stories have been compiled in two collections, "The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People" and "My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere". She also served as editor for "Best American Essays 2005" and "Best American Travel Writing 2007". She contributed the Ohio chapter in "State By State" (2008), and in 2011 she published a biographical history of the dog actor Rin Tin Tin titled "Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend".